Big History and the Future of Humanity presents a theoretical approach that makes big history available to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold. What is big history? Big history is placing human history within the history of life, Earth, and the universe.
I worked with author Fred Spier, who lives in the Netherlands, on editing this manuscript. Spier was an excellent author to work with. He responded to my edits and queries very quickly. And when he disagreed with my edits, he explained to me why he wanted to leave the text as such.
Like many books I work on, I learned a lot about the subject matter while editing the manuscript. But it didn’t end there! After the book was designed, I indexed it. Indexing a book requires reading the manuscript with a completely different mindset than reading a manuscript while editing it. While re-reading the manuscript in the new layout, I put the themes and ideas discussed throughout the book in an alphabetical listing to help readers locate the information quickly.
Increase your score on the GRE with a tool that is highly portable, easy to review and less expensive than any other study aid. Vocabulary is of huge importance for reading and interpreting text then knowing and understanding context while analyzing written material. The exam features fill-in-the-blank questions where you choose the best word for context, a nuanced skill that depends on vocabulary knowledge which will be thoroughly tested in the verbal reasoning section of the exam. Being organized alphabetically by word root allows you to understand the root to better decode words that are not memorized or already in your common vocabulary. Whether taking the exam while in college, after your undergrad, or with some time in-between, this 6-page laminated guide of those all-important roots and vocabulary words can go anywhere.