This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator...(展开全部)

Review "I have long been a fan of David Christian. In Origin Story, he elegantly weaves evidence and insights from many scientific and historical disciplines into a single, accessible historical narrative." ―Bill Gates "In Origin Story, David Christian has found a spectacular way to use history to put order in the entire set of our knowledge about the world. This is a wonderful...(展开全部)

A Brief History of Everything Ken Wilber Now available for the first time on audio, here is Ken Wilber’s concise account of our place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit. Told in an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, A Brief History of Everything examines the course of evolution as the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from matter to life to mind, ...(展开全部)

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill B...(展开全部)

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods , Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country , he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest boo...(展开全部)

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill B...(展开全部)

大卫·克里斯蒂安（David Christian），牛津大学博士，主要任职于悉尼麦考瑞大学。1989年，他开始在麦考瑞大学讲授大历史课程；1991年，他在《世界历史》上发表题为《为“大历史”辩护》的文章，首次为他的课程取名“大历史”；2010年，他与比尔·盖茨一起成立“ 大历史项目”，这是面向中学生和普通公众的免费大历史网络课程，2013年底启动。克里斯蒂安是澳大利亚人文学院院士、荷兰皇家科学和人文学会会员，同时也是国际大历史学会创会主席。 辛西娅·斯托克斯·布朗（Cynthia Stokes Brown），约翰·霍普金斯大学博士，国际大历史学会的创会委员。任职于加州多米尼克大学，2007年出版了《大历史：从大爆炸到当下》，此后，她一直参与多米尼克大学的大历史项目。 克雷格·本杰明（Craig Benjamin），麦考瑞大学博士，密歇根伟谷州立大学梅...(展开全部)

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free ...(展开全部)

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike ? either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a c...(展开全部)

Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one ki...(展开全部)