ARTICLES AND BOOKS
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Jantsch, Eric. (1980). The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
(1981). Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life. Boston: Little, Brown.
(1982). The Broadest View of the Biggest Picture: An Essay on Radiation, Matter, Life. Harvard Magazine, January/February, pp. 2125.
Capra, Fritjof. (1982). The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Prigogine, Ilya; Isabelle Stengers. (1984). Order out of Chaos: Mans New Dialogue with Nature. London: Heinemann.
Mears, John. (1986). Evolutionary Process: An Organizing Principle for General Education. The Journal of General Education 37 (4): 113125.
Asimov, Isaac. (1987). Beginnings: The Story of Origins of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe. New York, Berkeley Books.
(1987). The Life Era: Cosmic Selection and Conscious Evolution. New York: Norton.
Kutter, G. Siegfried. (1987). The Universe and Life: Origins and Evolution. Cambridge (Massachusetts): James and Bartlett.
Preiss, Byron (editor). (1987) The Universe. New York: Bantam Books.
(1988). Oasis in Space: Earth History from the Beginning. New York, W.W. Norton & Company.
Ferris, Timothy, (1989). Coming of Age in the Milky Way. New York: Morrow.
Trefil, James. (1989). Reading the Mind of God: In Search of the Principle of Universality. New York: Charles Scribners Sons.
Christian, David. (1991). The Case for Big History. The Journal of World History 2 (2): 223238 (www.fss.uu.nl/96-97/big.htm).
Reeves, Hubert. (1991). Hour of Our Delight: Cosmic Evolution, Order, and Complexity. New York: W.H. Freeman & Company.
Elias, Norbert. (1992). Time: An Essay. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Neprimerov, N. (1992). Mirozdanie [The Universe]. Kazan: Kazan State University.
Swimme, Brian; Thomas Berry. (1992). The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era: A Celebra?ion of the Unfolding of the Cosmos. San Francisco: Harper Collins.
Hoyle, Fred; Chandra Wickramasinghe. (1993, 1996). Our Place in the Cosmos: The Unfinished Revolution. London: Phoenix.
Kauffman, Stuart. (1993). The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lewin, Roger. (1993). Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. London: J.M. Dent, Limited.
Life in the Universe. (1994). Scientific American 271 (4), October 1994. Published, 1995, as Life in The Universe: Scientific American Special Issue. New York: W.H. Freeman & Company.
Gell-Mann, Murray. (1994). The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. New York: W.H. Freeman & Company.
Morrison, Philip; Phylis Morrison and The Office of Charles and Ray Eames. (1994). Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe. New York: W.H. Freeman & Company.
Davies, Paul. (1995). Are we Alone? New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
(1995). At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity. London: Viking.
Drees, Willem. (1996). Van Niets tot Nu: Een wetenschappelijk scheppingsverhaal. Kampen: Uitgeverij Kok.
Reeves, Hubert; Jo? de Rosnay, Yves Coppens, Dominique Simonnet. (1996). La Plus Belle Histoire du Monde: Les secrets de nos origins. Paris: Editions du Seuil.
Spier, Fred. (1996). The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Rees, Martin. (1997). Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others. London: Simon & Schuster.
(1998). Universe: An Evolutionary Approach to Astronomy. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
(1998). The Cosmic Environment for the Growth of Complexity. Biosystems 46: 1319.
Delsemme, Armand. (1998). Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Prantzos, Nikos. (1998, 2000). Our Cosmic Future: Humanitys Fate in the Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1998). Origins: Cosmos, Earth and Mankind. New York: Arcade Publishing.
Scientific American. (1998 [Spring]). Magnificent Cosmos: Exploring the Universe, From our Solar Neighborhood to Beyond Distant Galaxies. Scientific American 9 (1).
(1998). Big History: Was die Geschichte im Innersten zusammenh?t. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag.
V?ez, Antonio. (1998). Del big bang al Homo sapiens. Medell?: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia.
(1999). Geschiedenis in het Groot: Een alomvattende visie. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
(1999). !B@C:BC@0 >4LH>9 AB>@88 (The Structure of Big History). )!”+ # ! !”, (Social Sciences Today) 5. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, pp. 152163.
Adams, Fred; Greg Laughlin. (1999). The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity. New York: The Free Press.
Levy, David (editor). (2000). The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos. New York: St. Martin Press.
Nottale, Laurent; Jean Chaline, Pierre Grou. (2000). Les arbres de levolution: Universe, vie, soci??. Paris, Hachette.
Ward, Peter; Donald Brownlee. (2000, 2004). Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe. New York, Copernicus Books.
(2001). Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
(2002). Creation: From Nothing until Now. London: Routledge.
Morowitz, Harold. (2002). The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2002). The Apollo 8 Earthrise Photo. Amsterdam, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Bryson, Bill. (2003). A Short History of Nearly Everything. London: Random House.
(2003). A unifying concept for astrobiology. International Journal of Astrobiology 2 (2): 91101.
Benjamin, Craig. (2004). Beginnings and Endings (Chapter 5). Palgrave Advances: World History, pp. 90111, M. Hughes-Warrington (editor). London and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan.
(2004). Complexity: An Energetics Agenda. Complexity 9 (3): 1421.
(2004). Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press. Translations into Spanish (2005) and Chinese (2007).
Lerner, Eric. (2004). Bucking the Big Bang. New Scientist #2448: 20.
Lineweaver, Charles; Yeshe Fenner and Brad Gibson. (2004). The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way. Science 303 (2): 5962.
Nazaretyan, Akop. (2004). Civilization Crises within the Context of Big (Universal) History: Self-Organization, Psychology, and Futorology (in Russian). Moscow: Mir-Publishers.
(2005). Western and Russian Traditions of Big History: A Philosophical Insight. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 36: 6380.
(2005). Connections and Continuities: Integrating World History into Longer Analytical Frameworks. Historically Speaking 6 (5): 3134.
Niele, Frank. (2005). Energy: Engine of Evolution. Amsterdam: Elsevier, Shell Global Solutions.
Snooks, Graeme. (2005). Big History or Big Theory? Uncovering the Laws of Life. Social Evolution & History 4 (1): 160188.
(2005). Exploring the Horizons of Big History (Guest editor, special issue, Social Evolution & History 4 (1).
(2005). The Ghost of Big History is Roaming the Earth. History & Theory 44: 253264.
(2005). The Small History of the Big History Course at the University of Amsterdam. World History Connected 2 (2).
(2005). How Big History Works: Energy Flows and Rise and Demise of Complexity. Social Evolution & History 4 (1): 87135 (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/f.spier/).
(2006). Why Big History? Philosophy, Science & Humanities. Moscow: Russian Ministry of Education 8: 104106.
(2006). Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos. New York: Columbia University Press.
(2006). The Goldilocks Enigma. London: Allen Lane.
May, Brian; Patrick Moore, Chris Lintott. (2006). Bang! The Complete History of the Universe. Bristol: Carlton Books.
Primack, Joel; Nancy Abrams. (2006). The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos. New York: Riverhead Books.
Ashrafi, Babak. (2007). Big History? Positioning the History of Science, pp. 711, Kostas Gavroglu and J?gen Renn (editors). Dordrecht: Springer.
Aunger, Robert. (2007). Major Transitions in Big History. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 74 (8): 11371163.
Brown, Cynthia Stokes. (2007). Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present, New York: New Press.
(2007). A Rigorous Periodization of Big History. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 74 (8): 11641178.
Gehrels, Tom. (2007). Survival through Evolution: From Multiverse to Modern Society. Charleston: BookSurge Publishing.
Reijnders, Lucas; Bert De Reuver, Egbert Tellegen (editors). (2007). Toekomst in het Groot (Big Futures). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Verburgh, Kris. (2007). FANTASTISCH! Over het
(?universe?) in ons hoofd. Antwerp: Houtekiet.
(2008). Long-term global heating from energy usage. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 89 (28): 253254.
(2008) Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity (48 half-hour lectures for The Teaching Company).
Jastrow, R.; Michael Rampino. (2008). Origins of Life in the Universe. Cambridge University Press.
Lesch, Harald; Harald Zaun. (2008). Die k?zeste Geschichte allen Lebens: Eine Reportage ?er 13,7 Milliarden Jahre Werden und Vergehen. Munich: Piper Verlag.
Lloyd, Christopher. (2008). What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life, and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day. London: Bloomsbury,
Alvarez, Walter; P. Claeys, and A. Montanari. (2009). Time-Scale Construction and Periodizing in Big History: From the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary to All of the Past. Geological Society of America, Special Paper # 452: 115.
(2009). The Convergence of Logic, Faith and Values in the Modern Creation Myth. Evolutionary Epic: Sciences Story and Humanitys Response, C. Genet, B. Swimme, R. Genet, and L. Palmer (editors). Los Angeles: Collins Foundation Press.
(2009). Why Arent More People Teaching Big History? Evolutionary Epic: Sciences Story and Humanitys Response, C. Genet, B. Swimme, R. Genet and L. Palmer (editors). Los Angeles: Collins Foundation Press.
Burke III, Edmund (Terry); David Christian and Ross Dunn. (2009). World History: The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students. Los Angeles: National Center for History in the Schools, University of California, Los Angeles,
(2009 [April]). The heat to come… New Scientist #2702: 2425.
(2009). The Evolutionary Epic and the Chronometric Revolution. The Evolutionary Epic: Sciences Story and Humanitys Response, pp. 9199, Cheryl Genet, Russell Genet, Brian Swimme, Linda Palmer, Linda Gibler (editors). Santa Margarita, California: Collins Foundation Press.
(2009). History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution. Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context, pp. 441462, J. Steven Dick and L. Mark Lupisella (editors).
(2009). Big History: The longest dur?. ?terreichische Zeitschrift f? Geschichtswissenschaften, 20. Jg., Band 2, pp. 91106. Special issue on Global History, Peer Vries (editor).
Dean, John. (2009). Looking for Great Big History Books. FindLaw: (http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20090807.html).
Dick, J. Steven; L. Mark Lupisella (editors). (2009). Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SP-4802.
Duncan; Todd; Craig Tyler. (2009). Your Cosmic Context: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology. San Francisco: Pearson Addison Wesley.
Fernlund, Kevin. (2009). To Think Like a Star: The American West, Modern Cosmology, and Big History. Montana: The Magazine of Western History 59: 2344.
(2009). The Cosmological Foundation of Our World, Seen in a Revised History of our Universe. University of Arizona, Tucson: (www.lpl.arizona.edu/~tgehrels/Foundation2.pdf).
Genet, Cheryl; Brian Swimme, Russell Genet and Linda Palmer (editors). (2009). The Evolutionary Epic: Sciences Story and Humanitys Response. Santa Margarita: Collins Foundation Press.
(2009). Implications of the Evolutionary Epic for the Study of Human History. The Evolutionary Epic: Sciences Story and Humanitys Response, pp. 135144, Cheryl Genet and others (editors). Santa Margarita: Collins Foundation Press.
(2009). Technology, Psychology and Catastrophes: On the Evolution of Non-Violence in Human History. Social Evolution & History 8 (2): 102132.
Potter, Christopher. (2009). You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe. New York, Harper Collins.
Rodrigue, Barry; Daniel Stasko. 2009. A Big History Directory, (2009): An Introduction. World History Connected 6 (3).
(2009). Big History: The Emergence of an Interdisciplinary Science? World History Connected 6 (3).
(2010). Big History & the Future of Humanity. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (To be translated into Spanish and Chinese).
Stasko, Daniel; Barry Rodrigue. (2010). A Preliminary Look at Big History Today. Social Evolution & History 9 (2): 135165.
(2010). Courses of Big History in the Universities of the World. AB>@8G5A:0O ?A8E>;>38O 8 A>F8>;>38O 8AB>@88 (Historical Psychology & Sociology) 3 (2).
(2010). Changing the Future with the Past: Global Enlightenment through Big History. The Journal of Globalization Studies 1 (2).
Grinin, Leonid; Andrey Korotayev. (2010). Evolutionary Megaparadigm: Potential, Problems, Perspectives. Evolution: Cosmic, Biological, and Social, Leonid Grinin and others (editors), Volgograd: Uchitel.
Hendrickson, Brandon. (2010). Organic Spiral History: A Proposal. Seattle: Social & Cultural Foundations of Education Program, University of Washington. Unpublished graduate paper (EDC 1566).
(2010). The Return of Universal History. History and Theory 49: 526. (Forthcoming).
Rodrigue, Barry. (2010). Big History, Civilization and Human Survival. Thought & Action 26.
(2010). Ark of the Sun: The Improbable Voyage of Life. (Forthcoming).
Christian, David; Cynthia Brown and Craig Benjamin. (2011). Between Nothing and Everything: Big History. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Ellis, William. (2011). A Gaian Paradigm.
Internet, Radio, TV & Film Resources on Big History
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(1980)
Cosmos. Public Broadcasting Service. This is a 13-part television series.
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter.
(1994)
Big History, University of Amsterdam
http://www.communities.uva.nl/bighistory
Fred Spier, site manager.
(2001)?
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_history
(2001)
Cosmic Evolution: From Big Bang to Humankind
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/docs/fr_1/fr_1_intro_movies.html
Eric Chaisson and Dana Berry, Wright Centre for Science Education, (originally Tufts University) now at Harvard.
(2001)
World History for Us All
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/
This is a web-based, pre-collegiate model curriculum incorporating Big History into World History.
Ross Dunn, project director, San Diego State University. http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2007/history-and-the-changing-landscape-of-information/world-history-for-us-all-an-innovative-world-history-curriculum
(2002)
The Great Story: An Epic of Evolution
http://thegreatstory.org/
Connie Barlow, website manager.
(2007)
The Arrow of Time: A Linear Rendering of Forward Time
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/docs/fr_1/fr_1_intro_movies.html
Eric Chaisson and Dana Berry, Wright Centre for Science Education, (originally Tufts University) now at Harvard.
(2008)
An Introduction to Big History with David Christian and William H. McNeill.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBCvpIK7g8U
YouTube broadcast, 30 December 2008.
David Christian
(Macquarie University) and
William McNeill (University of Chicago).
(2008)
Science & Canon for Human Culture
http://www90.homepage.villanova.edu/lowell.gustafson/ottawa/
Click inside the opening slide and the use your keyboard arrows to move through the show.
Lowell Gustafson (Villanova University).
(2009)
Big History, Twitter Site
Tweets by BigHistory
Fred Spier, site manager, University of Amsterdam.
(2009)?
Big History, University of Southern Maine
http://usm.maine.edu/lac/global/bighistory/
Resource site of syllabi, web-links, essays, etc.
Barry Rodrigue, site manager, University of Southern Maine.
(2009)
Big History Club, Facebook
www.facebook.com/pages/Big-History/99185533648?sid=40f694f1b5d227bf7337df0b885fd88c&ref
This is an international club for Big History students, run by the students themselves.
John Kimball (University of Southern Maine), site manager.
(2009)
Bill Gates about Big History course.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyQiS-QGRc8&feature=related
YouTube, 22 April 2009.
Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation) and Charlie Rose (Public Broadcasting Service).
(2009)
Zooming In & Out of History
http://public.csusm.edu/west038/index.html
John West, History Department, California State University San Marcos.
(2010)
Fred Spier interviewed by Marshall Poe on New Books in History.
http://newbooksinhistory.com/2010/10/01/fred-spier-big-history-and-the-future-of-humanity/
(2010)
Big History Group Library, Zotero
www.zotero.org/groups/big_history/items
Rich Blundell, site manager.
(2010)
Chronozoom
http://share.seadragon.com/demos/ChronoZoom/firstgeneration.html
Walter Alvarez & Roland Saekow, Earth & Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley.
(2010)
The Institute of Global Dynamic Systems
http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/GDSCpapers.htm
Graeme Snooks,
Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University.
(2010)
Marshall Poe, Fred Spier.
Big History and the Future of Humanity, in New Books in History, 1 October 2010: http://newbooksinhistory.com/?p=3121
(2011)
Its Time For A New Narrative; Its Time For Big History, National Public Radio (USA): http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/02/10/133652898/its-time-for-a-new-narrative-its-time-for-big-history
BIG HISTORY (2013) 17 part series on the H2 channel – http://www.history.com/shows/big-history