Big History places the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe. In doing so, this emerging field of historical study provides uswith an overview of the known past in its entirety, from the beginning of time until the present day. In Big History and the Future of Humanity, Spier presents a simple theoretical approach that not only makes big history accessible,but reveals what the future may hold for humanity. This original new approachinterprets big history as the history of the rise and demise of complexity inall its myriad forms, from the greatest galaxy clusters to the tiniest sub-atomic particles. While focusing on energy flows through matter and the circumstances that produce complexity, the author traces the emergence and decline of all the major forms of complexity that have existed, including human societiesand their products. Breathtaking in scope, Big History and the Future of Humanityoffers provocative new insights into the origins and development of life and serves as an invitation to ponder humans place in the cosmos in a fascinating new way.Fred Spier is Senior Lecturer in Big History at the University of Amsterdam and also teaches Big History at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is the author of Religious Regimes in Peru (1994), San Nicolás de Zurite (1995), and The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today (1996).
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3421-0
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 12/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés