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THE BIG PICTURE - SEAN CARROLL GEBUNDEN

The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe-and how we
understand it. Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.-The New York Times Succeeds
spectacularly.-Science A tour de force.-Salon Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant
lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics  Sean Carroll is emerging as
one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary
intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest
personal questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions  our beliefs  and our hopes and
dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Do human purpose and meaning fit into a
scientific worldview? In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes  personal
asides  and rigorous exposition  readers learn the difference between how the world works at
the quantum level  the cosmic level  and the human level-and then how each connects to the
other. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from
Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life  consciousness  and the universe is dazzlingly
unique. Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed
our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the
immensity of space and time  but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it
meaning. The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview  a tour de force that will
sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking  Carl Sagan  Daniel Dennett  and E. O.
Wilson for years to come.

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