4.41 avg rating — 565 ratings

"This is the work that really popularized the Big History movement."

4.08 avg rating — 1,013 ratings

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"Though it only covers the span of humanity, this book certainly takes a broad-based Big History analytic perspective of time. It was a big history flavored book before the subject really existed."

4.06 avg rating — 7,888 ratings

"A good general introduction to big history to the common reader."

3.64 avg rating — 132 ratings

"One of the early historians expounding on the topic of big history."

4.34 avg rating — 73 ratings

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"One of the early historians expounding on the topic of big history."

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"The book that started the Big History movement"

4.11 avg rating — 602 ratings

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"A work by a pre-big historian who heavily influenced the work of David Christian."

4.01 avg rating — 124,724 ratings

"One of the original underpinning books of the science which became Big History"

3.91 avg rating — 365 ratings

"One of the original underpinning books of the science which became Big History"

4.04 avg rating — 91 ratings

"One of the original underpinning books of the science which became Big History"

3.97 avg rating — 1,527 ratings

"Covering entropy, information theory as they apply to economics, this book does a great job discussing some of the simple basics within the research area of complexity theory (though without mentioning it tacitly). Philosophically it helps to explain portions of how big history works from a mechanistic standpoint."

4.12 avg rating — 8,128 ratings

"A seminal book in the history of science that began the overlap of conversation between physics and biology."

4.11 avg rating — 6,079 ratings

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"An excellent overview of the big bang and some basic physics and science which underpins the broad ideas of big history."

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