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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Description: 528 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781529913934 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 599.909 23
LOC classification:
  • GN50.4
Summary: 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the Earth. Today there is just one - us. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? In 'Sapiens', Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions.
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Non Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital General 909 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30499100000313

This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2014.

Translated from the Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the Earth. Today there is just one - us. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? In 'Sapiens', Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions.

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