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SEAN CARROLL - GEBRAUCHT THE BIG PICTURE ON THE...

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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