Big history and the future of humanity / / Fred Spier
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| Titolo: |
Big history and the future of humanity / / Fred Spier
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley Blackwell, 2015 |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 909 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civilization -- Philosophy |
| History -- Philosophy | |
| World history -- Philosophy | |
| Human evolution | |
| Human ecology | |
| Biocomplexity | |
| Complexity (Philosophy) | |
| History -- Historiography | |
| Classificazione: | 201.1 |
| 909 | |
| Note generali: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction to big history -- General approach -- Cosmic evolution : the emergence of simple forms of complexity -- Our cosmic neighborhood : the emergence of greater complexity -- Life on the Earth : the widening range of complexity -- Early human history : the emergence of the greatest known complexity -- Recent human history : the development of the greatest known complexity -- Facing the future -- Appendix: A short time line of big history. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Provides an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history that places human history within the context of the history of life, the Earth, and the universe"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Big history and the future of humanity |
| ISBN: | 1-118-88171-0 |
| 1-118-88170-2 | |
| 9781118881705 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911108498403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
New York Academy of Sciences Ser.