Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who...
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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014.
Written by three big historians with long experience of teaching big history, this is the first college level textbook on big history. It updates the big history narrative, incorporates the core idea of Thresholds of Increasing Complexity, adds further readings and resources, and also chapter questions and many illustrations, maps and diagrams. Nine of the […]
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Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. 2nd ed. New York: New Press. 2012. 1st ed, 2007.
This short book (250 pages) tells big history for a general audience in clear, non-academic language, yet well documented. The general theme is of the human history portion is humans in their environment, connected by food.
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Children of the Universe: Cosmic Education in the Montessori Elementary Classroom
Explanation of how the cultural curriculum in Montessori is integrated under the rubric of Cosmic Education.
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Awakening Universe, Emerging Personhood: The Power of Contemplation in an Evolving Universe
The new story of the evolutionary universe shows clearly that we emerged within and belong to the magnificent unfolding story yet a felt participation in the story and its numinous depths is often elusive. This book describe a pathway to finding a personal depth of belonging to the story. It uses the breakthroughs in our […]
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Mammals Who Morph: The Universe Tells our Evolution Story (Book 3 in a Universe Story Trilogy)
This remarkable evolution series, narrated by the Universe itself, concludes with this third book, the amazing story of mammals and humans. It picks up after From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story with the extinction of dinosaurs, and tells how tiny mammals survived and morphed into lots of new Earthlings … horses, […]
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From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story (Book 2 in a Universe Story Trilogy)
“Once upon a time” meets science in a this children’s picture book that tells the thrilling story of how life began on Earth. The second in a trilogy of Universe stories – the first being “Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story”– this book picks up the story with the first appearance […]
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Born With a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story (Book 1)
The is the first book in a Universe Story Trilogy that tells the story from the Big Bang to today. Born With a Bang tells the story of the birth of the universe through the formation of the solar system. The series is targeted for the elementary level, but is used in colleges and by […]
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