{"product_id":"the-great-courses-big-history-the-big-bang-life-on-earth-and-the-rise-of-humanity-8-disc-set-w-course-guidebook","title":"The Great Courses: Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity 8-Disc Set w\/ Course Guidebook","description":"Great Courses: Big History: Big Bang, Life On Earth, \u0026amp; Rise Of Humanity DVD NEW  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eType: \u003c\/label\u003e Movie \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003ePlatform: \u003c\/label\u003e DVD \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/label\u003e The Teaching Company (The Great Courses) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eReleased: \u003c\/label\u003e 2008 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eMedia: \u003c\/label\u003e DVD \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cshortdescription\u003e\u003c\/shortdescription\u003eTHE GREAT COURSES: BIG HISTORY: THE BIG BANG, LIFE ON EARTH, AND THE RISE OF HUMANITY 8-DISC SET W\/ COURSE GUIDEBOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e48 lectures \/ 30 minutes per lecture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. What Is Big History?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Moving across Multiple Scales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Simplicity and Complexity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Evidence and the Nature of Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Threshold 1—Origins of Big Bang Cosmology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. How Did Everything Begin?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Threshold 2—The First Stars and Galaxies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Threshold 3—Making Chemical Elements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Threshold 4—The Earth and the Solar System\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. The Early Earth—A Short History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. Threshold 5—Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Darwin and Natural Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. The Evidence for Natural Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. The Origins of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. Life on Earth—Single-celled Organisms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. Life on Earth—Multi-celled Organisms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Hominins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e19. Evidence on Hominin Evolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20. Threshold 6—What Makes Humans Different?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e21. Homo sapiens—The First Humans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22. Paleolithic Lifeways\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23. Change in the Paleolithic Era\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24. Threshold 7—Agriculture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e25. The Origins of Agriculture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e26. The First Agrarian Societies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e27. Power and Its Origins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e28. Early Power Structures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29. From Villages to Cities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e30. Sumer—The First Agrarian Civilization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e31. Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e32. The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e33. Long Trends—Expansion and State Power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e34. Long Trends—Rates of Innovation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e35. Disease and Malthusian Cycles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e36. Comparing the World Zones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e37. The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e38. Threshold 8—The Modern Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e39. The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e40. The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e41. Breakthrough—The Industrial Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e42. Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e43. The 20th Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e44. The World That the Modern Revolution Made\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e45. Human History and the Biosphere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e46. The Next 100 Years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e47. The Next Millennium and the Remote Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e48. Big History—Humans in the Cosmos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Lecturer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor 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. 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