The Great Courses: Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity 8-Disc Set w/ Course Guidebook
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THE GREAT COURSES: BIG HISTORY: THE BIG BANG, LIFE ON EARTH, AND THE RISE OF HUMANITY 8-DISC SET W/ COURSE GUIDEBOOK
48 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture
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. Hominins
Disc 4
19. Evidence on Hominin Evolution
20. Threshold 6—What Makes Humans Different?
21. Homo 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. 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 Millennium and the Remote Future
48. Big History—Humans in the Cosmos
About the Lecturer
Professor David Christian, formerly Professor of History at San Diego State University, is one of the pioneers of the field of big history. He is currently Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the 2005 World History Association Book Prize, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity. He is coeditor of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History.
Course No. 8050
ISBN 9781598034103
For DVD Player (North American NTSC)
48 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture
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. Hominins
Disc 4
19. Evidence on Hominin Evolution
20. Threshold 6—What Makes Humans Different?
21. Homo 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. 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 Millennium and the Remote Future
48. Big History—Humans in the Cosmos
About the Lecturer
Professor David Christian, formerly Professor of History at San Diego State University, is one of the pioneers of the field of big history. He is currently Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the 2005 World History Association Book Prize, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity. He is coeditor of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History.
Course No. 8050
ISBN 9781598034103
For DVD Player (North American NTSC)
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