Sapiens : a brief history of humankind / Yuval N Harari

By: Harari, Yuval N
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Vintage Books, 2015Description: x, 498 p. : ill. (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN: 9780099590088Subject(s): Civilization -- History | Human beings -- History | World historyDDC classification: 920 HAR
Contents:
Part 1: The cognitive revolution. An animal of no significance ; The tree of knowledge ; A day in the life of Adam and Eve ; The flood -- Part 2: The agricultural revolution. History's biggest fraud ; Building pyramids ; Memory overload ; There is no justice in history -- Part 3: The unification of humankind. The arrow of history ; The scent of money ; Imperial visions ; The law of religion ; The secret of success -- Part 4: The scientific revolution. The discovery of ignorance ; The marriage of science and empire ; The capitalist creed ; The wheels of industry ; A permanent revolution ; And they lived happily ever after ; The end of Homo sapiens -- Afterword: The animal that became a god.
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Translated from the Hebrew.

Part 1: The cognitive revolution. An animal of no significance ; The tree of knowledge ; A day in the life of Adam and Eve ; The flood --
Part 2: The agricultural revolution. History's biggest fraud ; Building pyramids ; Memory overload ; There is no justice in history --
Part 3: The unification of humankind. The arrow of history ; The scent of money ; Imperial visions ; The law of religion ; The secret of success --
Part 4: The scientific revolution. The discovery of ignorance ; The marriage of science and empire ; The capitalist creed ; The wheels of industry ; A permanent revolution ; And they lived happily ever after ; The end of Homo sapiens --
Afterword: The animal that became a god.

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