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By (author) Baker, David; Foreword by Green, John

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A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events“Baker introduces us not only to the history of our species and our planet, but the history of our vast universe.”—from the foreword by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars

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A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events

“Baker introduces us not only to the history of our species and our planet, but the history of our vast universe.”—from the foreword by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars

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“Baker introduces us not only to the history of our species and our planet, but the history of our vast universe.”

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“Praise for the Australian edition”It’s quite a feat to . . . fit this Big History into a ‘shortest history.'”

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“Operates at such a vast scale that it cannot help but brush up against the eternal and the profound.”

Biographical note:
David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History (the field that explores patterns in deep time and across the natural and social sciences). He is an award-winning lecturer, has written educational videos seen by millions of people, and is the author ofThe Shortest History of Our Universe. He lives in Tropical North Queensland, Australia.