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100			_aChristian, David
110			_aSan Diego State University
245			_aBig History : _bThe Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity / _cDavid Christian ; The Teaching Company.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aChantilly, VA : _bThe Teaching Company, _c2010.
300			_a8 DVDs (1440 min) : _bsd. col. ; _c4 3/4 in + _e1 Course Guidebook (280 p. : ill. ; 19 cm).
440			_aThe Great Courses
500			_a48 x 30 min. long lectures.
501			_aThe Course Guidebook includes: 296-page course synopsis, photos & illustrations, suggested readings, as well as questions to consider.
504			_aIncludes a biography of the author, a course scope, and bibliographical references.
505			_a"About 100,000 to 60,000 years ago, a species of hominines—bipedal ape-like creatures—began to move out of its home territory in Africa and into the Asian continent. Today, homo sapiens, the descendants of those first hominines—live in nearly every ecological niche. We fly through the air in planes, communicate instantaneously over immense distances, and develop theories about the creation of the Universe. In Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity, you’ll hear this ever-evolving story—the history of everything—in its monumental entirety from the moment the Universe grew from the size of an atom to the size of a galaxy in a fraction of a second" (Publisher's website).
505			_aDVD CONTENTS: _gDisc 1 _t1. What Is Big History? _t2. Moving across Multiple Scales _t3. Simplicity and Complexity _t4. Evidence and the Nature of Science _t5. Threshold 1 - Origins of Big Bang Cosmology _t6. How Did Everything Begin? _tDisc 2 _t7. Threshold 2 - The First Stars and Galaxies _t8. Threshold 3 - Making Chemical Elements _t9. Threshold 4 - The Earth and the Solar System _t10. The Early Earth - A Short History _t11. Plate Tectonics and the Earth<s Geography _t12. Threshold 5 - Life _tDisc 3 _t13. Darwin and Natural Selection _t14. The Evidence for Natural Selection _t15. The Origins of Life _t16. Life on Earth - Single-celled Organisms _t17. Life on Earth - Multi-celled Organisms _t18. Hominines _tDisc 4 _t19. Evidence on Hominine Evolution _t20. Threshold 6 - What Makes Humans Different? _t21. Hom sapiens - The First Humans _t22. Paleolithic Lifeways _t23. Change in the Paleolithic Era _t24. Threshold 7 - Agriculture _tDisc 5 _t25. The Origins of Agriculture _t26. The First Agrarian Societies _t27. Power and Its Origins _t28. Early Power Structures _t29. From Villages to Cities _t30. Sumer - The First Agrarian Civilization _tDisc 6 _t31. Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions _t32. The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made _t33. Long Trends - Expansion and State Power _t34. Long Trends - Rates of Innovation _t35. Long Trends - Disease and Malthusian Cycles _t36. Comparing the World Zones _tDisc 7 _t37. The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era _t38. Threshold 8 - The Modern Revolution _t39. The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500 - 1350 _t40. The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700 _t41. Breakthrough - The Industrial Revolution _t42. Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900 _tDisc 8 _t43. The 20th Century _t44. The World That the Modern Revolution Made _t45. Human History and the Biosphere _t46. The Next 100 Years _t47. The Next Millenium and the Remote Future _t48. Big History - Humans in the Cosmos
520	3		_a"About 100,000 to 60,000 years ago, a species of hominines—bipedal ape-like creatures—began to move out of its home territory in Africa and into the Asian continent. Today, homo sapiens, the descendants of those first hominines—live in nearly every ecological niche. We fly through the air in planes, communicate instantaneously over immense distances, and develop theories about the creation of the Universe. In Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity, you’ll hear this ever-evolving story—the history of everything—in its monumental entirety from the moment the Universe grew from the size of an atom to the size of a galaxy in a fraction of a second" (Publisher's website).
520	2		_aCONTENTS: Disc 1 1. What Is Big History? 2. Moving across Multiple Scales 3. Simplicity and Complexity 4. Evidence and the Nature of Science 5. Threshold 1 - Origins of Big Bang Cosmology 6. How Did Everything Begin? Disc 2 7. Threshold 2 - The First Stars and Galaxies 8. Threshold 3 - Making Chemical Elements 9. Threshold 4 - The Earth and the Solar System 10. The Early Earth - A Short History 11. Plate Tectonics and the Earth<s Geography 12. Threshold 5 - Life Disc 3 13. Darwin and Natural Selection 14. The Evidence for Natural Selection 15. The Origins of Life 16. Life on Earth - Single-celled Organisms 17. Life on Earth - Multi-celled Organisms 18. Hominines Disc 4 19. Evidence on Hominine Evolution 20. Threshold 6 - What Makes Humans Different? 21. Hom sapiens - The First Humans 22. Paleolithic Lifeways 23. Change in the Paleolithic Era 24. Threshold 7 - Agriculture Disc 5 25. The Origins of Agriculture 26. The First Agrarian Societies 27. Power and Its Origins 28. Early Power Structures 29. From Villages to Cities 30. Sumer - The First Agrarian Civilization Disc 6 31. Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions 32. The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made 33. Long Trends - Expansion and State Power 34. Long Trends - Rates of Innovation 35. Long Trends - Disease and Malthusian Cycles 36. Comparing the World Zones Disc 7 37. The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era 38. Threshold 8 - The Modern Revolution 39. The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500 - 1350 40. The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700 41. Breakthrough - The Industrial Revolution 42. Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900 Disc 8 43. The 20th Century 44. The World That the Modern Revolution Made 45. Human History and the Biosphere 46. The Next 100 Years 47. The Next Millenium and the Remote Future 48. Big History - Humans in the Cosmos
650			_aGreat Courses _vHistory.
650			_aHistory _vCivilization.
650			_aHistory _vCulture and philosophy.
650			_aWorld history _vHuman evolution.
710			_aThe Teaching Company
856			_uhttps://bit.ly/2IwVCoa _yPublisher's Website.
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