READING SET 1
Big History: Brief Introduction to the Universe of Homo habilis and Civilization

What History Is
Alun Munslow
www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Whatishistory/munslow6.htm

"Indices of Civilization"
Robert Bierstedt
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 71, No. 5 (Mar., 1966), pp. 483-490

"The Life-Expectancy of Industrial Civilization: The Decline to Global Equilibrium"
Richard C. DuncanSource
Population and Environment, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Mar., 1993), pp. 325-357

"The Clash of Civilizations?"
Samuel P. Huntington
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 22-49

"Western and Russian Traditions of Big History: A Philosophical Insight"
Akop P. Nazaretyan
Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeineWissenschaftstheorie, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2005), pp. 63-80

"Technology, Psychology, and Crises: Does World History Have a Psychological Dimension?"
Akop P.Nazaretyan,
Psychology in Russia State of the Art - Volume #1, 2008
See: http://psychologyinrussia.com/volumes/?article=2202

"Life's Meaning as a Global Problem of Modernity: A View from Big History and Complexity Studies Perspective"
Akop P.Nazaretyan,
Journal of Globalization Studies. Volume 1, Number 2 / November 2010
Download from: http://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/140651

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