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

Summary:

Fire gave us power. Gossip helped us cooperate. Agriculture made us hungry for more. Mythology maintained law and order. Money gave us something we can really trust. Contradictions created culture. Science made us deadly. This is the thrilling account of our extraordinary history - from insignificant apes to rulers of the world. Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our beliefs, our actions, our power... and our future.

Record details

ISBN: 9780771038518
ISBN: 077103850X
Physical Description: x, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Signal/McClelland & Stewart, 2016.
Copyright: 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir"--T.p. verso. CatMonthString:february.15
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	An animal of no significance -- The tree of knowledge -- A day in the life of Adam and Eve -- The Flood -- History's biggest fraud -- Building pyramids -- Memory overload -- There is no justice in history -- The arrow of history -- The scent of money -- Imperial visions -- The law of religion -- The secret of success -- 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. The cognitive revolution -- The agricultural revolutions -- The unification of humankind -- The scientific revolution