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OR EMAILBook Notes: Big History: From The Big Bang To The Present
At first I wasn’t too into this book, but ultimately I was sort of glad I persevered. It attempts to document the entirety of history - all the way back to the Big Bang - in a mere 248 pages. Naturally, a heck of a lot has been omitted, so on one level it’s merely a “greatest hits” compendium. But several chapters were new information to me, and the unusual nature of our current, technology infused century becomes starkly clear in the context of large swaths of history.
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