This web site provides a wide range of information about Fred Spier’s book Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition, Wiley Blackwell, released in the spring of 2015, in particular for using it as a textbook for teaching big history at college level. Also e-book versions are available on Wiley.com and elsewhere, including Kindle and Apple iBook versions.

 

 

 

While providing this overview, the book offers a simple original model that explains major underlying principles of big history, including human history. This model has not been challenged so far, and is increasingly adopted by other scholars, most notably in the Big History Project sponsored by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and related productions.

The widely-acclaimed first edition is already being used for teaching big history at universities in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Australia. The book has also proven to be very popular in unusual settings, including teaching big history to adventurous cyclists biking all the way from Istanbul to Beijing along the ancient Silk Road as well as to inmates in a US high security prison. So the possibilities seem limitless.

 

The Second Edition has been adapted to be even more suitable for teaching big history. But because most teaching features will appear on this web site and not in the book, it can also be read very well separately without any teaching purposes.

 

 

While most features of this web site are now online, some information on the Teaching pages is still in preparation and will be made available as soon as possible.

 

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