Big History, Small World - Softcover

Cynthia Stokes Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614720312 ISBN 13: 9781614720317

Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2016

Synopsis

Big history becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World by Cynthia Stokes Brown, the only guide to a new approach to history that has been specifically designed for high school students and tied to the free curriculum provided online by the Bill Gates funded Big History Project.

About this title

About the Author:

Cynthia Stokes Brown has taught world history in high-school and trained high-school teachers at Dominican University of California, where she piloted big history courses and helped initiate the big history program now required for all freshmen. She is the author of the general-interest book on big history, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present (New York: New Press, 2nd ed. 2012) and also wrote a university-level textbook with David Christian and Craig Benjamin, Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014). She is a founding member of the International Big History Association and associate editor of its new Journal of Big History.

Review:

Cynthia Brown is a master of the big history story, a wonderful, exotic, and surprising story with many unexpected twists and sudden turns. --ProtoView

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1614720312
• ISBN 13: 9781614720317
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300