A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today s version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, makes the journey from the earliest foraging era to the agrarian era to our own modern era a fascinating one. Ready to help your students give up their preconceptions that anything old is probably boring? Enter This Fleeting World. A compact, easy-to-read overview of world history, ideal for curriculum development, classroom preparation, and student review.
David Christian is a professor of world history at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and co-founder, with Bill Gates, of the Big History Project. In 1989, Christian began teaching the first course on big history, an interdisciplinary field that examines history starting with the Big Bang, and his work came to the attention of Bill Gates through a video course produced by The Teaching Company. In 2014, Gates and Christian were the subjects of the cover story of the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the World History Association book prize (2004), and is writing a history of Central Asia. He is also the author of Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation and (with R. E. F. Smith) Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia. He has spoken about big history at the TED Conference, the World Economic Forum, and on the Comedy Central program The Colbert Report.
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评分从去年开始,我给学生布置了一个特殊的作业,名叫“东写西读计划”。这是一个利用网络平台,就某个话题,阅读相关资料,跟帖与讨论的作业。虽然这是历史课上的作业,但我设计的话题并非局限在历史学。迄今为止,我们讨论的话题涉及:由“日本首相安倍战后七十周年讲话”谈宽恕...
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评分从去年开始,我给学生布置了一个特殊的作业,名叫“东写西读计划”。这是一个利用网络平台,就某个话题,阅读相关资料,跟帖与讨论的作业。虽然这是历史课上的作业,但我设计的话题并非局限在历史学。迄今为止,我们讨论的话题涉及:由“日本首相安倍战后七十周年讲话”谈宽恕...
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