Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind
#1 New York Times Bestseller.The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback.From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--tha...
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Broadway, New York
Harper Perennial
2015
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Table of 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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