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The Shortest History of Our Universe

Autor David Baker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2023
A journey across 13.8 billion years that distills a complete history of the universe—from the mysterious and sudden birth of the cosmos to the rise of modern humans, and everything in between—in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, and thrillingly fast-paced chronicle of key events
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781615199730
ISBN-10: 161519973X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 192 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Experiment, LLC

Notă biografică

David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History (the field that explores patterns in deep time and across the natural and social sciences). He is an award-winning lecturer, has written educational videos seen by millions of people, and is the author of The Shortest History of Our Universe. He lives in Tropical North Queensland, Australia.

John Green is the award-winning author of mega-bestsellers like The Fault in Our Stars (over five million copies sold) and The Anthropocene Reviewed.

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Contents
Foreword by John Green
Introduction

Part One: The Inanimate Phase
The Big Bang
Stars, Galaxies, and Complexity
Origin of the Earth
Part Two: The Animate Phase
Life and Evolution
Explosions and Extinctions
Primate Evolution
Part Three: The Cultural Phase
Human Foragers
The Dawn of Agriculture
Agrarian States
The Unification of the World
The Anthropocene
Part Four: The Unknown Phase
The Near and Deep Future
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Image Credits
Index