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The ultimate three minutes : the story of two great human watersheds--their preparation and their coinciding /
The title of this book borrows from two distinguished scientists: Steven Weinberg describes the developments of the first three minutes of the universe following the explosion of the "Big Bang" 13.8 billion years ago; Paul Davis describes the final subsidence of the universe into entropy a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton :
Sussex Academic Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by the Rt. Revd. Nicholas Reade; List of Maps and Genealogy; Introduction; 1 The Dancing Floor; 2 The Dancing Years; 3 The Century of the Crescent Quiescent (900-801 BC); 4 The Century of the First European Miracle (800-701 BC); 5 The Century of the Fall of Assyria (700-601 BC); 6 The Century of the Tightening World (600-501 BC); 7 An Underestimated Contribution (546-538 BC); 8 The Century of the Second European Miracle (500-401 BC); 9 The Century of Farewell to the Aegean (400-301 BC); 10 The Century of the Intermeshing (300-201 BC).
- 11 The Century of Creaks, Cracks and Contradictions (200-101 BC)12 The "Century" of Accelerating Discontents (100-50 BC); 13 Thirteen Centuries of Song (1,370-103 BC); Chapters 14-32 (A)-(S) The "Long" First Century AD (50 BC-AD 120); 14 (A) The "Decade" of the Assassination of Julius Caesar; 15 (B) The "Decade" of the Second Triumvirate (43-30 BC); 16 (C) The First Decade of Augustus: The Restoration of the Republic (30-21 BC); 17 (D) The Second Decade of Augustus: The Ascendancy of Augustus (20-11 BC); 18 (E) The Third Decade of Augustus: The Splendid Isolation of Augustus (10-1 BC).
- 19 (F) Augustus and Providence (63 BC-AD 14)20 (G) The Fourth Decade of Augustus:The Disillusionment of Augustus (AD 1-10); 21 (H) The Decade in the Wake of Augustus (AD 11-20); 22 (I) The Decade of the Disillusionment of Tiberius (AD 21-30); 23 (J) The Decade of Tiberius and Caligula (AD 31-40); 24 (K) The Decade of Claudius and the Council of Jerusalem (AD 41-50); 25 (L) The Decade of the Rise and Fall of Agrippina the Younger (AD 51-60); 26 (M) The Decade of Nero and theYear of the Four Emperors (AD 61-70); 27 (N) The Decade of Vespasian (AD 71-80).
- 28 (O) The Decade of Titus and Domitian (AD 81-90)29 (P) The Decade of Domitian, Nerva and Trajan (AD 91-100); 30 (Q) "Where Can I Get a Drink?" (AD 91-100); 31 (R) The Decade of Trajan (AD 101-110); 32 (S) The Decade of Trajan and Hadrian (AD 111-120); 33 The "Century" of the Two Watersheds (50 BC-AD 120); 34 The Century of the Climax of the Ancient World (AD 101-200); 35 The Century of the Superannuation of Rome (AD 201-300); 36 The Century of Kaleidoscopic Mutation (AD 301-400); 37 The Century of Diverging Destinies, AD 401-500 (A) The East.
- 38 The Century of Diverging Destinies, AD 401-500 (B) The West39 The Northern Frontier (10,000 BC-AD 500); 40 The Ultimate Three Minutes (Passover AD 33); 41 The Parable of the Target; 42 The Parable of the Doppler Shift; Epilogue; Back Cover.