Klarinet Archive - Posting 000432.txt from 2004/03

From: "Forest Aten" <forest_aten@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:25:08 -0500

> Science....I'm after the science. Not the moral ethic. You keep talking
> about biology. Give me the science. You keep mixing the ethics of morality
> with the science of biology.
>
> Forest Aten
>
>

A very nice book......history from the beginning. Might be interesting for
those following the language thread. Christian is an Englishman......living,
teaching and writing in America.
Topic
Big history

Author
David Christian

Author Bio
David Christian is a history professor at San Diego State University. His
previous books include "Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve
of Emancipation," "Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the
Challenge of Modernity," and "A History of Russia, Central Asia and
Mongolia, vol. 1"

Description
Ten years ago, David Christian of San Diego State University argued that his
colleagues should reverse the trend toward ever-finer specialization and
start thinking big. He wrote an essay called "The Case for Big History," and
then he took his own advice. He's now produced "Maps of Time: An
Introduction to Big History" which takes us from the Big Bang to now --

Publication
"Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History" (University of California
Press, 2004)