Sapiens : a brief history of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari.
"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand...
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New York :
Harper,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Timeline of history
- 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.