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Origin Story
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Author : David Christian
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-05-22
Origin Story written by David Christian and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with History categories.
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This last mega-innovation gave us an energy bonanza that brought huge benefits to mankind, yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created. This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale.
Origin Stories
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Author : Chris Lee
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2021-04-19
Origin Stories written by Chris Lee and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-19 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World charts the growth of the game in each major footballing country, from the very first kick to the first World Cup in 1930. Football's global spread from muddy playing fields to colossal, purpose-built stadiums is a story of class, race, gender and politics. Along the way, you'll meet the people who established football around the world and discover the challenges they faced. Featuring interviews with leading historians, journalists, club chairmen and descendants of club founders and players, Origin Stories tells the fascinating country-by-country tale of how football put down its roots around the world. The sport's early growth includes a cast of English aristocrats and 'Scotch professors', French tournament pioneers, international merchants, keen students, raucous rebels and more. Origin Stories shows that football's early development was a truly global team effort.
Origin Story
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Author : David Christian
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-05-22
Origin Story written by David Christian and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with History categories.
This New York Times bestseller "elegantly weaves evidence and insights . . . into a single, accessible historical narrative" (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe -- from the Big Bang to dinosaurs to mass globalization and beyond. Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History," the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years we've come to know as "history." By focusing on defining events (thresholds), major trends, and profound questions about our origins, Christian exposes the hidden threads that tie everything together -- from the creation of the planet to the advent of agriculture, nuclear war, and beyond. With stunning insights into the origin of the universe, the beginning of life, the emergence of humans, and what the future might bring, Origin Story boldly reframes our place in the cosmos.
Origin Stories In Political Thought
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Author : Joanne Harriet Wright
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Origin Stories In Political Thought written by Joanne Harriet Wright and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Origin stories are a recurring motif in the history of political thought. Presented as narratives that describe the beginnings of politics and power, these stories are among the most provocative and politically contentious means by which Western society organizes and represents its experience. Indeed, as scripts of citizenship, origin stories seek to manufacture consent to a preconceived - and hierarchical - political vision. Joanne H. Wright's Origin Stories in Political Thought examines Plato's Timaeus, Hobbes's story of the state of nature and the social contract, and early Second Wave feminist stories about the beginnings of patriarchal social relations. Using a historically sensitive, feminist methodology, Wright documents and deconstructs the tradition of telling origin stories in the larger history of political thought. Although individual tales have been assessed in current scholarship, the motif of the origin story itself has, until now, escaped systematic analysis. With meticulous research and convincing conclusions, Origin Stories in Political Thought makes a groundbreaking and valuable contribution to both feminist and political studies.
On The Origin Of Stories
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Author : Brian Boyd
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
On The Origin Of Stories written by Brian Boyd and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects—anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Art is a specifically human adaptation, Boyd argues. It offers tangible advantages for human survival, and it derives from play, itself an adaptation widespread among more intelligent animals. More particularly, our fondness for storytelling has sharpened social cognition, encouraged cooperation, and fostered creativity. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer’s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works. What triggers our emotional engagement with these works? What patterns facilitate our responses? The need to hold an audience’s attention, Boyd underscores, is the fundamental problem facing all storytellers. Enduring artists arrive at solutions that appeal to cognitive universals: an insight out of step with contemporary criticism, which obscures both the individual and universal. Published for the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, Boyd’s study embraces a Darwinian view of human nature and art, and offers a credo for a new humanism.
The Marvel Universe
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Author : Bruce Wagner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12
The Marvel Universe written by Bruce Wagner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12 with categories.
THE MARVEL UNIVERSE: ORIGIN STORIES tracks the hallucinatory, transcendent, interconnected lives and deaths of an ensemble - an orphaned billionairess, a black man wrongly convicted of murder, a schizophrenic child obsessed with the comic book character Wolverine, a cancelled television showrunner, a hustler pretending to be the love child of Elon Musk, an aging standup comedienne - as they slouch toward 2020. For some of them, that pandemic year of tectonic social unrest will be their last; for others, a watershed allowing them to flourish in the new reality, one that surpasses any Hollywood tent-pole franchise's imaginings. It is truly the time of horror and chaos, yet of astonishing marvels...
Pourquoi Tales
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Author : Independently Published
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-29
Pourquoi Tales written by Independently Published and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-29 with categories.
During the winter of 2018, second grade students read, compared, and discussed numerous pourquoi tales, also known as origin stories. Then, students used their knowledge of pourquois to create their own using the writing process (plan, draft, revise, edit, publish- all while collecting feedback). Second graders were so excited to type their own tales as well! Students illustrated their stories with collages using self- made paper. Each of the 23 pourquoi tales contains the hard work of a seven or eight year old- I hope you enjoy reading their work and remembering the excitement of childhood imagination. --Elizabeth Park, Second Grade Teacher
Doctor Who Origin Stories
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Author : Doctor Who
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-09-29
Doctor Who Origin Stories written by Doctor Who and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
*Includes a brand-new story feauturing the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate)!* We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives . . . Amy Pond looks for her Raggedy Man, Jo Grant remembers her childhood, the Master hunts the past . . . a young girl discovers a love for explosives. Eleven incredible stories from the world of Doctor Who - the early lives of friends and foes that have never been told before. The characters and their writers include: Ace by Sophie Aldred Sarah-Jane Smith by Mark Griffiths The Master, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Madame Vastra by Dave Rudden Ryan Sinclair and Yaz Khan by Emma Norry Clara Oswald by Jasbinder Bilan Amy Pond by Nikita Gill Davros by Temi Oh Martha Jones by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Jo Grant by Katy Manning © 2022 Doctor Who (P)2022 Penguin Audio
Mothers As Keepers And Tellers Of Origin Stories
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Author : Kerri S. Kearney
language : en
Publisher: Demeter Press
Release Date : 2019-12-01
Mothers As Keepers And Tellers Of Origin Stories written by Kerri S. Kearney and has been published by Demeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with Social Science categories.
This collection presents diverse critical perspectives and discussion about the keeping or telling of children’s originstories as a part of contemporary mothering labor. The first two sections outline perspectives from mother authors about how they strategically craft complex origin stories for their child(ren), as well as how the telling and retelling of origin stories may be passed on as generational knowledge. The third section discusses mothering and origin stories from multiple perspectives: that of a father by adoption, of single mothers positioning stories of absent fathers, and a multi-perspective chapter that includes a mother by adoption, her adult child, and her child’s birthmother.
Comic Books Origin Stories
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Author : Publications International, Ltd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Comic Books Origin Stories written by Publications International, Ltd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Reference categories.
This book captures the fun and excitement that have made comic books popular since the early 1930s. Fabulous covers, complete interior pages and dramatic panel enlargements help to tell the story of this vibrant, exciting publishing phenomenon from superheroes to femme fatales to satire comics. Illuminating essays add insight into notable creative figures, characters and unusual comics.