BIG HISTORY: FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE PRESENT
Book ID/图书代码： 08B26825
English Summary/英文概要： An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It’s a story that takes in prehistoric geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of Columbus, the industrial revolution, and global warming. Historian Cynthia Brown visits the Vikings, the Mayas and Aztecs, the Incas, the Mongol empire, and the Islamic heartlands. Along the way she considers topics as varied as cell formation, population growth, global disparities, and illiteracy, creating a stunning synthesis of historical and scientific knowledge of humanity and the earth we inhabit. Big History represents a new kind of history, one that skillfully interweaves historical knowledge and cutting-edge science. In an age of global warming, when the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, scientific advances permit us to see the universe as never before, grasping the timescales that allow us to understand the history of mankind in the context of its ecological impact on the planet. Cynthia Brown’s lucid, accessible narrative is the first popularization of this innovative new field of study, as thrilling as it is ambitious.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们时代的伟大事件，当宇宙不再是单一形式的原子，以不可思议的密度挤在了一起的时候伟大的历史时刻到来了，并在这些行星上居住了6.1亿人，史前的地质学，人类的进化学，耕作时代，黑死病，哥伦布航行，工业革命，全球性的气候变暖，这些都可以理解为个个故事，历史学家辛西娅·布朗访问维京,玛雅人与阿兹台克人,印加,蒙古帝国,伊斯兰的中心地带，沿途中她认为地区就像各种细胞的形成，人口的增长,全球的差距,文盲,引起令人昏倒的综合的历史和人类的科学知识在我们所居住的地球上发生过。大历史事件描绘了一个新的历史，巧妙地交织的历史知识和最前沿的科学。全球暖化的时代,当地球安危未定，科学的进步允许我们看到不再像以前一样的宇宙，抓住时间，让我们明白人类的历史语境中的生态环境对地球的影响。辛西娅·布朗的清晰的叙述是第一个推广这个新的研究领域,他扣人心弦同时也饱含雄心壮志。(DJY)
Awards/获奖情况：Cynthia Brown provides a global history, one which provides the kind of historical knowledge that all students should bring to their understanding of current happenings.---HERBERT KOHL Beginning with the very origin of the universe, American Book Award–winning author Brown (Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement) shows that history is more than the written records of the gadfly species Homo sapiens. In a multidisciplinary narrative subtly emphasizing the mutual impact of people and planet, Brown covers Earth’s history from the big bang through the development of life and the growth of civilization. Nice concrete details give immediacy to the most remote events: The gold in the ring on your finder has to be more than 4.5 billion years old. Brown’s story covers the globe, encompassing the Mongols and Vikings, Mayans and Aztecs, as well as the Islamic Empire and Europe. Brown looks at the gold rush that followed Columbus’s American voyages and the impact of chocolate, tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco and chili peppers on European habits. In a blink the Industrial Revolution and world wars lead to the new millennium. While much of the story is familiar, Brown’s writing lucidly knits each topic into a vast historical mosaic. This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped—and how they in turn shaped the world we know today. 33 b&w illus. (Sept.) ---From Publishers Weekly
辛西娅·布朗提供全球历史，她所提供的历史知识是每个学生应该对当前发生的事件有自己的理解.——-HERBERT科尔
从宇宙的源头，美国的著作家获得者—布朗作家。显示了历史超越了作者本身的记载，各种各样的叙述巧妙地强调了人类和行星之间的共性。
布朗理论涵盖了宇宙大爆炸现象理论的发展和人类文明的发展才从具体事件到遥远的另外一个事件。黄金探测仪的发现超过了450亿年，布朗故事包含全球，包括了北欧,玛雅和阿兹台克人,以及伊斯兰教帝国和欧洲。在布朗看来,《淘金记》是美国的旅程,哥伦布的影响、西红柿、土豆、巧克力的烟草和红辣椒是欧洲的习惯。在闪烁的工业革命和两次世界大战带来新的年代。虽然大部分的故事是熟悉的,布朗的写作每个话题的努力考虑这些事情变成一个庞大的历史的综合体。这个令人兴奋的传奇穿越时空来成为我们现在所熟知的。
About the Author/作者介绍： Cynthia Stokes Brown is a retired professor of education at Dominican University of California. She has written history and biography, including the American Book Award-winning Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement, Connecting with the Past, and Refusing Racism. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Cynthia Stokes Brown 是一个退休的教授在多米加大学教书。他写历史和传记。其中包括美国获奖集—内战的胜利，种族的平等和公民的权利，联系过去并抵制种族歧视。她住在加利福尼亚的伯克利。
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