This volume lays the physical and conceptual groundwork for the Pacific World series, exploring both the constraints imposed and the opportunities offered to humanity by the physical environment of the Pacific region. Organized from the perspectives of "Big History" and macro-geography, the volume presents a series of major studies and surveys by authors from a range of disciplines. It opens with perspectives on the ocean, and closes with questions of human settlement, diffusion, and trans-Pacific contacts. Geologists write of the origins of the Pacific, its geological structure, and the problem of tsunamis; climatologists and oceanographers discuss the El NiÃ±o Southern Oscillation and the ocean waters; biologists and biogeographers find patterns in the life of the Basin - as is shown, all these have their impact on the potential of the region for human use and settlement. Finally, geographers, anthropologists, and archaeologists deal with the peopling of the Pacific islands, the settlement of the Americas, and the incidence and importance of pre-modern links across the Pacific.

Defining the Pacific: Opportunities and Constraints (The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900)

History

Spier, Fred

Australia & Oceania

Routledge

How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

CRC-Press

Featuring a variety of updates and revisions, Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition, presents an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history from the origins of the universe and origins of life on Earth up to the present day. <ul>
<li>Provides an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history that places human history within the context of the history of life, the Earth, and the universe</li> <li>Offers new insights into the future of humanity by providing a better understanding of the past</li> <li>Features a variety of updates and revisions that include increased coverage of key concepts such as the emergence of human behaviour, the development of value systems, and patterns of complexity in Big History</li> <li>Incorporates a variety of 'little big histories' that aid readers in recognizing how big history concepts can relate to their daily lives</li> <li>Instructor resources from the author will be available online upon publication</li> </ul>
 Find additional resources from the author online at www.bighistory.info

Big History and the Future of Humanity, 2nd Edition

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Wiley/Blackwell

Big History and the Future of Humanity

Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity. <ul>
<li>Provides an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history that places human history within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe</li> <li>Features an original theory of “big history” which explains all of history and opens up an entirely new interdisciplinary research agenda</li> <li>Offers new insights into the future of humanity by better understanding the past</li> <li>Presents a new approach to complexity studies, which takes into account the greatest galaxy clusters as well as the tiniest sub-atomic particles</li> </ul>

La Gran Historia –“Big History”-, un término que propuso David Christian en Mapas del tiempo, sitúa nuestro pasado en la evolución del cosmos, con la finalidad de examinar los asuntos humanos en una perspectiva más amplia, para identificar procesos y pautas que nos permitan dar sentido a la diversidad aparentemente caótica de los acontecimientos que surgen de las interacciones entre los seres humanos, tal como lo necesitamos para comprender las complejas realidades sociales de nuestro tiempo. Lo que Fred Spier aporta en este libro es, no solo una visión global del proceso, sino también una fundamentación teórica, que nos propone basar la “gran historia” en el estudio de la evolución de las diversas formas de complejidad que se han ido sucediendo desde los orígenes del tiempo hasta las sociedades humanas. R.I. Moore, profesor emérito de la Universidad de Newcastle, nos dice que “este es el método en que toda la historia humana debiera investigarse, enseñarse y discutirse”.

El lugar del hombre en el cosmos: La «Gran Historia» y el futuro de la humanidad

History & Philosophy

Editorial Crítica.

The social and natural sciences have more in common than most of us may suspect. This thought-provoking study presents a single straightforward structure which unites the latest scientific views on the history of the universe, the solar system, the planet, life and humankind. The focus on the formation, differentiation and transformation of configurations, regimes, and on the ever-changing reactions and interactions between them produces a simple, dynamic and reality-congruent structure with which to view the whole of history. It contributes to a better understanding of some long-standing academic controversies such as the root causes behind the origins of humankind, the rise of agriculture and the emergence of early states.

The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today

Amsterdam University Press

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