4.42 avg rating — 562 ratings

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

4.08 avg rating — 998 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 — 7,675 ratings

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

3.63 avg rating — 130 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."

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings

"The book that started the Big History movement"

4.12 avg rating — 593 ratings

4.22 avg rating — 332 ratings

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

4.01 avg rating — 122,480 ratings

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

3.91 avg rating — 360 ratings

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

4.07 avg rating — 91 ratings

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

3.97 avg rating — 1,504 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."

4.13 avg rating — 7,781 ratings

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

4.11 avg rating — 5,957 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."

4.18 avg rating — 10,446 ratings

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