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Sapiens a brief history of humankind book depository. Yuval noah harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70 000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. A brief history of humankind has become an international phenomenon attracting a legion of fans from bill gates and barack obama to chris evans and jarvis cocker and is published in over forty five languages worldwide. In sapiens yuval noah harari gives a detailed account of human history presenting the facts and myths of how mankind has dominated the planet the driving forces shaping our lives and how we can think about our impact on earth and our collective future. The account is situated within a framework that intersects the natural sciences with the social sciences.

Tackling evolutionary concepts from a historian s perspective sapiens. 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. A brief history of humankind describes human development through a framework of three not necessarily orthodox revolutions. How did we come to believe in gods nations and human rights.

It was a sunday times number one bestseller and was in the top ten for over nine months in paperback. All hello sign in. A brief history of humankind is a book by yuval noah harari first published in hebrew in israel in 2011 based on a series of lectures harari taught at the hebrew university of jerusalem and in english in 2014. The book surveys the history of humankind from the evolution of archaic human species in the stone age up to the twenty first century focusing on homo sapiens.

And to be enslaved by bureaucracy tim 100 000 years ago at least six human species inhabited the earth. Account lists account returns orders. The cognitive the agricultural and the scientific. Skip to main content sg.

A brief history of humankind by readtrepreneur publishing 9781546919711 available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. To trust money books and laws. Today there is just one. Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach but dr.

A brief history of humankind has become an international phenomenon attracting a legion of fans from bill gates and barack obama to chris evans and jarvis cocker and is published in over forty five languages worldwide.