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Big History and the Future of Humanity
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Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an theoretical approach that makes "big history" - the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity.
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- Spier, F.
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- Spier, Fred
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