This bold book covers the entire
sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change.
Maybe teachers are using small doses of digital instruction so they have more time, or smaller groups of students, for the main event: introducing kids to great works of literature, or big ideas in science, or
the sweep of human history.
«It gives us a much longer
sweep of human history to examine.»
Not exact matches
Theologians are recognizing the need for a wider conceptuality which frees theology from the ghetto
of sacred
history and places it within the whole
sweep of human and natural
history.
The first position appeals to reasonable (not simply conformist and hypocritical) Christians who believe that, after all, every period
of human history has its values: that it is better to try to Christianize a given situation than to enter into conflict with it; and that one can not
sweep the whole socia1 and cultural edifice into outer darkness.
Your role is to inspire students to find ways to achieve their own fulfillment and to recognize where they are in the
sweep of humanity and
human history.»
Combining the
human drama
of Isaac's Storm with the
sweep of The American People in the Great Depression, The Worst Hard Time is a lasting and important work
of American
history.
In his
sweeping, stimulating and enlightening The Square and the Tower, noted historian Niall Ferguson draws from a wide range
of sources to trace the crucial role that different kinds
of human networks have played throughout
history.
Spanning two continents and the dramatic
sweep of history, A Partial History of Lost Causes reveals the stubbornness and splendor of the human will even in the most trying
history, A Partial
History of Lost Causes reveals the stubbornness and splendor of the human will even in the most trying
History of Lost Causes reveals the stubbornness and splendor
of the
human will even in the most trying times.
Jetty Cats (32:00) Sheila O'Rourke's
sweeping overview
of cats throughout
human history, looks at a long - surviving feral cat colony on a seaside jetty in Southern California and explores the debate about Trap - Neuter - Return as the best management for community cats.
Lauren Fensterstock's newest body
of work centers on her interest in caves, spanning a
sweeping array
of human history from the Prehistoric to the metaphoric.
Then it laid out a
sweeping view
of human history, in which money, religion, corporations, roads and electricity — all different kinds
of networks — as more people join one, the more valuable it becomes to all participants.