Sapiens

N., Harari, Yuval

£25.00

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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Publish Date: 11/01/2024

Description

A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensation

INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARI

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?

One of the world’s preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.

In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we’re going.

PRAISE FOR SAPIENS:

‘Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth’ Barack Obama

‘Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last… It may be the best book I’ve ever read’ Chris Evans

‘Startling… It changes the way you look at the world’ Simon Mayo

‘I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who’s interested in the history and future of our species’ Bill Gates

Additional information

Weight 760 g
Dimensions 240 × 162 × 44 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

528

Language

English

Edition

Special edition

Dewey

599.909 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K