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Title:

Big history / foreword by David Christian ; contributors, Elise Bohan, Robert Dinwiddie, Jack Challoner, Colin Stuart, Derek Harvey, Rebecca Wragg-Sykes, Peter Chrisp, Ben Hubbard, Philip Parker.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

DK,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

440 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Subject:

World history.
Human ecology.
World history.
Human ecology.

Other Authors:

Bohan, Elise, author.
Dinwiddie, Robert, 1953- author.
Challoner, Jack, author.
Stuart, Colin (Science writer), author.
Harvey, Derek, author.
Wraggs-Sykes, Rebecca, author.
Chrisp, Peter, author.
Hubbard, Ben, 1973- author.
Parker, Philip, author.

Notes:

At head of title: DK. "Macquarie Univeristy, Big History Institute." "Examines our past, explains our present, imagines our future"--Cover. Includes index.

Summary:

A companion text for the Big History Project blends geology, biology, physics, anthropology, and sociology to reveal how and why humans have reached their place in the universe.

ISBN:

1465454438
9781465454430 (hardcover)

LCCN:

bl2016042505

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)