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• View the Front Matter and Table of Contents
• View the Introductory Chapter
• Chapter 1: Science
• Chapter 2: Nature has but a few fundamental rules; today, millions of natural phenomena are understood to be different aspects of these few rules
• Chapter 3: How and when the universe began
• Chapter 4: How and when the Earth began, and the affects of its moving continents on life
• Chapter 5: The nature of the molecules of life, and the sequence of plants and animals that have developed on the Earth
• Chapter 6: The emergence of humans
• Chapter 7: Behavior of mammals
• Chapter 8: Primate social systems and the origins of our emotions, language, and morals
• Chapter 9: The gatherer-hunter way of life: the Indians of central Brazil
• Chapter 10: The religion of gatherer-hunter peoples: the power in the bush
• Chapter 11: Human political forms: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states
• Chapter 12: The origin of farming, cities, and the civilization of us humans
• Chapter 13: The religions of the first farmers, the beginnings of today's moral religions, and summaries of a few of them
• Chapter 14: Our civilization, from ancient to modern
• Chapter 15: The changing way of life in the United States during the 19th century as we switched from working our own family farm within the neighborhood to being factory workers
• Chapter 16: The early 1900s brings college for the middle clas, instant and mass-communication by radio, massive advertising, movie stars, sports, and blues and jazz music
• Chapter 17: The computer and its uses
• Chapter 18: Today's global business
• Chapter 19: Government in today's nations: authoritarian and democratic systems, and the cultural ingredients of democracy
• Chapter 20: How Washington shares power today
• Chapter 21: Today's big-city way of life for two boys in Chicago
• Chapter 22: The science of government through measurements of the success of government's efforts
• Chapter 23: Concluding remarks