Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
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- ISBN: 9780062316110
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Physical Description:
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[viii], 443 pages, 5 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm - Edition: First Harper Perennial edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Harper Perennial, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2015
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General Note: | Translation of: Kitsur toldot ha-enoshut. 2011. "First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Mora-Bitan, Dvir."--Title page verso. "Previously published in a slightly different form in Great Britain in 2014 by Harvill Secker, a division of the Random House Group Ltd."--Title page verso. Includes Q&A with author. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-428) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Timeline of history -- Part One. The cognitive revolution. An animal of no significance -- The tree of knowledge -- A day in the life of Adam and Eve -- The flood -- Part Two. The agricultural revolution. History's biggest fraud -- Building pyramids -- Memory overload -- There is no justice in history -- Part Three. The unification of humankind. The arrow of history -- The scent of money -- Imperial visions -- The law of religion -- The secret of success -- Part Four. 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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