Fred Spier

How the Biosphere Works (eBook, ePUB)

Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a simple and novel theoretical approach to understanding the history of the biosphere, including humanity's place within it. It also helps to clarify what the possibilities and limitations are for future action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000573145
• Artikelnr.: 63616998

Autorenporträt

Fred Spier is senior lecturer in big history emeritus at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a M.Sc. in chemistry (with distinction) as well as a M.A. and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and social history (both cum laude, the highest distinction in the Netherlands). He has taught big history in various academic settings, while lecturing about it all around the world. He is the author of the highly-acclaimed books Religious Regimes in Peru (1994), for which Spier was awarded a Praemium Erasmianum Study Prize 1993; The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today (1996); and Big History and the Future of Humanity (2010, 2015). Between 2011 and 2014, Spier was the founding vice president of the Intl. Big History Assn. (IBHA) and its president de facto, and between 2014 and 2016 its second president.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Chapter One. The Context of Discovery: A Personal Survey of the
Natural and Social Sciences Concerning our Biosphere's History. Chapter
Two. Cultivating Pepper Plants: Jointly Maximizing the Capture of Solar
Energy. Chapter Three. Examining Key Concepts of our Biosphere's History.
Chapter Four. What Needs to Be Considered While Writing our Biosphere's
History? Chapter Five. A Fresh History of the Biosphere Before Humans.
Chapter Six. What are Humanity's General Effects within the Biosphere's
History? Chapter Seven. Seven Million Years of Human Influences within the
Biosphere's History. Chapter Eight. What About our Long-Term Survival
Strategy within the Future Biosphere? Epilogue. Appendix One. A Personal
Look at the City of Eindhoven's History. Appendix Two. List of Biases
Mentioned in the Book.