Literature

A
  • Adams, Fred & Laughlin, Greg (1999). The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the physics of eternity. New York: The Free Press.
  • Alvarez, Walter (2009). ‘A Geological Perspective on Big History’. World History Connected, 6, 3 (fall issue).
  • Asimov, Isaac (1991). Asimov’s Chronology of the World: The history of the world from the Big Bang to modern times. New York: HarperCollings Publishers.
  • Asimov, Isaac (1987). Beginnings: The story of origins: Of mankind, life, the Earth, the Universe. New York: Walker & Company.
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B C
  • Chaisson, Eric (2006). Epic of Evolution: Seven ages of the cosmos. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Chaisson, Eric (2001). Cosmic Evolution: The rise of complexity in nature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  • Chaisson, Eric (1998). ‘The Cosmic Environment for the Growth of Complexity’. Biosystems, 46, 13-19.
  • Chaisson, Eric (1988). Universe: An evolutionary approach to astronomy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
  • Chaisson, Eric (1987). The Life Era: Cosmic selection and conscious evolution. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Chaisson, Eric (1982). ‘The Broadest View of the Biggest Picture: An essay on radiation, matter, life’. Harvard Magazine, January-February, 21-25.
  • Chaisson, Eric (1981). Cosmic Dawn: The origins of matter and life. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Chaisson, Eric (1977). ‘The Scenario of Cosmic Evolution’. Harvard Magazine, November-December, 21-33.
  • Chambers, Robert (1994). Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings. (James E. Second, Ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Original publication 1844.
  • Christian, David (2011) ‘A Single Historical Cintinuum.’ Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 2, 1, (6-26).
  • Christian, David (2009). ‘Contingency, Pattern, and the S-curve in Human History’. World History Connected, 6, 3 (fall issue).
  • Christian, David (2009). ‘History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution.’ In: Dick, Steven J. & Lupisella, Mark L. (eds.) Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context (441–62).
  • Christian, David (2007). This Fleeting World. Great Barrington, MA, Berkshire Publishing Group.
  • Christian, David (2004). Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Christian, David (1991). ‘The Case for ‘Big History’. Journal of World History, Vol. 2, No. 2, 223-238.
  • Christian, David (1989). ‘The Longest Durée: A history of the last 15 billion years’. Austrialian Historical Association Bulletin, 59-60, 27-36.
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  • Cloud, Preston (1988). Oasis in Space: Earth history from the beginning. New York: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Cloud, Preston (1978). Cosmos, Earth and Man: A short history of the Universe. New Haven etc.: Yale University Press.
D
  • Delsemme, Armand (1998). Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the emergence of life and intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Drees, Willem B. (2002). Creation: From nothing until now. London etc.: Routlegde.
  • Drees, Willem B. (1996). Van Niets tot Nu: Een wetenschappelijk scheppingsverhaal. Kampen: Uitgeverij Kok. (in Dutch)
E
  • Emiliani, Cesare (1992). Planet Earth: Cosmology, geology and the evolution of life and the environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
F
  • Fox, Ronald F. (1988). Energy and the Evolution of Life. New York: W.H. Freeman & Company.
G
  • Garatty, John & Gay, Peter (Eds.) (1972). The Columbia History of the World. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Gehrels, Tom (2011). Can we do without the big bang? Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Bookstores.
  • Gehrels, Tom (2007). Survival through Evolution: From multiverse to modern society. Charleston, South Carolina: BookSurge Publishing.
  • Genet, Russel Merle (2007). Humanity: The chimpanzees who would be ants. Santa Margarita, California: Collins Foundation Press.
  • Genet, Cheryl, et al. (eds) (2009). The Evolutionary Epic: Science’s story and humanity’s response. Santa Margarita, California: Collins Foundation Press.
  • Goudsblom, J. (2001). ‘Geschiedenis in het Klein en Groot’. De Gids, 164, No. 9, 688-697. (in Dutch)
  • Gonzalez, Guillermo & Richards, Jay Wesley (2004). The Privileged Planet: How our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery. Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc.
  • Grinchenko, S.N. (2004). System Memory of Life (as the Basis of its Meta-Evolution and Periodic Structure). Moscow, Mir-Publishers. (in Russian)
  • Grinchenko, S.N. (2007). Meta-Evolution (of inanimate, animate and social-technological nature systems). Moscow, Ipiran Publishers. (in Russian)
  • Grinin, Leonid E., Carneiro, Robert L., Korotayev, Andrey V. & Spier, Fred (eds.) (2011) Evolution: Cosmic, Biological, and Social. Volgograd, ‘Uchitel’ Publishing House
H
  • Hughes-Warrington, Marnie (2002). ‘Big History’. Historically Speaking, Vol. IV, No. 2, November issue.
  • Humboldt, Alexander von (1997). Cosmos: Volume I: Foundations of Natural History. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Original publication 1845.
J
  • Jantsch, Erich (1980). The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and human implications of the emerging paradigm of evolution. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press
K
  • Kutter, G. Siegfried (1987). The Universe and Life: Origins and evolution. Boston: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
L
  • Lesch, Harald & Zaun, Harald (2008). Die Kürzeste Geschichte Allen Lebens: Eine Reportage über 13,7 Milliarden Jahre Werden und Vergehen. München, Zürich: Piper Verlag.
  • Levy, David (Ed.) (2000). The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos. New York: St. Martin Press & London: MacMillan.
  • Liebes, Sydney, Sahtouris, Elisabet & Swimme, Brian (1998). A Walk Through Time: From stardust to us: The evolution of life on Earth. New York etc.: John Wiley & Sons.
  • 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.
  • Lunine, Jonathan I. (1999). Earth: Evolution of a habitable world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
M
  • MacDougall, J.D. (1995). A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, mammals, fire and ice. New York etc.: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Markley, Jonathan (2009). ‘A child said, “What is the grass?”: Reflections on the Big History of the Poaceae’. World History Connected, 6, 3 (fall issue).
  • May, Brian, Moore, Patrick & Lintott, Chris (2006). Bang! The Complete History of the Universe. Bristol, Carlton Books.
  • McArthur Harris, Lauren & Hamilton, Sarah (2009). ‘Challenges and Opportunities: Reflections on Teaching Big History Discussion Sections’. World History Connected, 6, 3 (fall issue).
  • McSween Jr., Harry Y. (1997). Fanfare for Earth: The origin of our planet and life. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
  • Morin, Edgar & Kern, Anne Brigitte (1993). Terre-Patrie. Paris, Editions du Seuil.
  • Morrison, Philip & Phylis and the office of Charles and Ray Eames (1994). Powers of Ten: About the relative size of things in the Universe. New York etc.: W.H. Freeman & Company.
  • Morowitz, Harold J. (2002). The Emergence of Everything: How the world became complex. Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press.
N
  • Nazaretyan, Akop P. (2010). Evolution of Non-Violence: Studies in Big History, Self-Organization and Historical Psychology. Saarbruecken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
  • Nazaretyan, Akop P. (2004). Civilization Crises within the Context of Big (Universal) History: Self-organization, psychology and futurology. Moscow: Mir-Publishers. (in Russian)
  • Niele, Frank (2005). Energy: Engine of evolution. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
  • Nisbet, E.G. (1991). Living Earth: A short history of life and its home. London: HarperCollins Academic Press.
  • Nottale, Laurent, Chaline, Jean & Grou, Pierre (2000). Les arbres de l’evolution: Universe, vie, sociétés. Paris: Hachette.
P
  • Packard, Edward (1994). Imagining the Universe: A visual journey. New York: Perigee Books.
  • Potter, Christopher (2009). You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe. New York, HarperCollins
  • Priem, H.N.A. (1997). Aarde en Leven: Een planetaire visie. Assen: Van Gorcum. (in Dutch)
  • Priem, H.N.A. (1993). Earth and Life: Life in relation to its planetary environment / Aarde en Leven: Het leven in relatie tot zijn planetaire omgeving. Dordrecht etc.: Wolters Kluwer Academic Publishers. (in English and Dutch)
R
  • Raumschiff Erde: Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit (2007). Spektrum der Wissenschaft Spezial. Heidelberg: Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. (in German)
  • Reeves, Hubert, Rosnay, Joël de, Coppens, Yves & Simonnet, Dominique (1998). Origins: Cosmos, Earth and mankind. New York: Arcade Publishing.
  • Reeves, Hubert, Rosnay, Joël de, Coppens, Yves & Simonnet, Dominique (1996). La Plus Belle Histoire du Monde: Les secrets de nos origins. Paris: Seuil. (in French)
  • Reeves, Hubert (1991). Hour of Our Delight: Cosmic Evolution, Order, and Complexity. New York, W.H. Freeman & Co.
  • Rodrigue, Barry & Stasko, Daniel (2009). ‘A Big History Directory, 2009: An Introduction’. World History Connected, 6, 3 (fall issue).
S
  • Spier, Fred (2011) ‘Complexity in Big History.’ Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 2, 1, (146-166).
  • Spier, Fred (2011). El lugar del hombre en el cosmos: La <<Gran Historia>> y el futuro de la humanidad. Barcelona, Spain, Editorial Crítica.
  • Spier, Fred (2010). Big History and the Future of Humanity. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Spier, Fred (2009). ‘Big History: The Emergence of an Interdisciplinary Science?’ World History Connected 6, 3, October.
  • Spier, Fred (2008). ‘Big history: The emergence of a novel interdisciplinary approach.’ Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 33, 2, (141-152).
  • Spier, Fred (2006). ‘Why Big History?’ Philosophy, Science and Humanities, Organ of the Russian Ministry of Education, 8 (104-106).
  • Spier, Fred (2005). `The Small History of the Big History Course at the University of Amsterdam’. World History Connected 2, 2 (May issue).
  • Spier, Fred (2005). `The Ghost of Big History is Roaming the Earth’. History & Theory 44 , May issue (253-264).
  • Spier, Fred (2005). ‘How Big History Works: Energy flows and the rise and demise of complexity’. Social Evolution & History, Vol. 4, No. 1.
  • Spier, Fred (2005). ‘What Drives Human History? A view from Big History’. Historically Speaking, May-June issue.
  • Spier, Fred & Blank, Paul W. (2002). Defining the Pacific: Opportunities and constraints. London: Ashgate.
  • Spier, Fred (1999). Geschiedenis in het Groot: Een alomvattende visie. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • Spier, Fred (1998). Big History: Was die Geschichte im Innersten zusammenhält. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag. (in German)
  • Spier, Fred (1998). Het Grootschalige Verleden in het Hedendaagse Leven. In Marian Schilder & Max Lebouille, De Evolutie de Baas: Oude en nieuwe visies op soortvorming en gentechnologie (11-33). Amsterdam: Vossius Pers, Amsterdam University Press. (in Dutch)
  • Spier, Fred (1997). Oriêntatie-Onzekerheid, Kaartenmaken en Geschiedenis in het Groot. In Nico Wilterdink, Johan Heilbron en Abram de Swaan (Eds.), Alles Verandert: Opstellen voor en over J. Goudsblom. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff. (in Dutch)
  • Spier, Fred (1996). The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until today. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • Swimme, Brian & Berry, Thomas (1992). The Universe Story: From the primeordial flaring forth to the ecozoic era: A celebration of the unfolding of the cosmos. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
V
  • Vélez, Antonio (1998). Del Big Bang al Homo sapiens. Medellín, Colombia: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia. (in Spanish)
  • Verburgh, Kris (2007). FANTASTISCH! Over het universum in ons hoofd. Antwerpen, Houtekiet.
W
  • Wells, H.G. (1920). The Outline of History: Being a plain history of life and mankind. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishers.
  • Wood, Dennis (2004). Five Billion Years of Global Change: A history of the land. New York: The Guilford Press.