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Big history the Big Bang, life on earth, and the rise of humanity
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Author

Christian, David, 1946-

Contributors

Teaching Company,

Published

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2008].

Physical Desc

8 videodiscs (approximately 24 hrs.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

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Table of Contents

Disc 1. [Lecture] 1. What is big history? [Lecture] 2. Moving across multiple scales. [Lecture] 3. Simplicity and complexity. [Lecture] 4. Evidence and the nature of science. [Lecture] 5. Threshold 1, Origins of Big Bang cosmology. [Lecture] 6. How did everything begin?

Disc 2. [Lecture] 7. Threshold 2, The first stars and galaxies. [Lecture] 8. Threshold 3, Making chemical elements. [Lecture] 9. Threshold 4, The earth and solar system. [Lecture] 10. The early earth, a short history. [Lecture] 11. Plate tectonics and the earth's geography. [Lecture] 12. Threshold 5, Life

Disc 3. [Lecture] 13. Darwin and natural selection. [Lecture] 14. The evidence for natural selection. [Lecture] 15. The origins of life. [Lecture] 16. Life on earth, Single-celled organisms. [Lecture] 17. Life on earth, Multi-celled organisms. [Lecture] 18. Hominines

Disc 4. [Lecture] 19. Evidence on hominine evolution. [Lecture] 20. Threshold 6, What makes humans different? [Lecture] 21. Homo sapiens, The first humans. [Lecture] 22. Paleolithic lifeways. [Lecture] 23. Change in the Paleolithic Era. [Lecture] 24. Threshold 7, Agriculture

Disc 5. [Lecture] 25. The origins of agriculture. [Lecture] 26. The first agrarian societies. [Lecture] 27. Power and its origins. [Lecture] 28. Early power structures. [Lecture] 29. From villages to cities. [Lecture] 30. Sumer, The first agrarian civilization

Disc 6. [Lecture] 31. Agrarian civilizations in other regions. [Lecture] 32. The world that agrarian civilizations made. [Lecture] 33. Long trends, Expansion and state power. [Lecture] 34. Long trends, Rates of innovation. [Lecture] 35. Long trends, Disease and Malthusian cycle. [Lecture] 36. Comparing the world zones

Disc 7. [Lecture] 37. The Americas in the later Agrarian Era. [Lecture] 38. Threshold 8, The modern revolution. [Lecture] 39. The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500-1350. [Lecture] 40. The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700. [Lecture] 41. Breakthrough, the Industrial Revolution. [Lecture] 42. Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900

Disc 8. [Lecture] 43. The 20th century. [Lecture] 44. The world that the modern revolution made. [Lecture] 45. Human history and the biosphere. [Lecture] 46. The next 100 years. [Lecture] 47. The next millennium and the remote future. [Lecture] 48. Big history, humans in the cosmos.

Subjects

LC Subjects

Civilization -- Philosophy.
DVD-Video disc.
Educational films.
Human evolution.
Nonfiction films.
World history.

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Published

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2008].

Format

DVD

Language

English

Notes

General Note

"Course no. 8050."

General Note

Lectures 1-48 of 48 lectures on 8 discs in 4 containers.

Participants/Performers

Lecturer: David Christian, San Diego State University.

Description

Lectures by Dr. David Christian, Professor of History at San Diego State University. Surveys the past at all possible scales, from conventional history, to the much larger scales of biology and geology, to the universal scales of cosmology.

Target Audience

MPAA not rated.

Language

English dialogue.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Christian, D. (2008). Big history: the Big Bang, life on earth, and the rise of humanity . Teaching Co..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Christian, David, 1946-. 2008. Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, and the Rise of Humanity. Teaching Co.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Christian, David, 1946-. Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, and the Rise of Humanity Teaching Co, 2008.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Christian, David. Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, and the Rise of Humanity Teaching Co., 2008.

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