This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. War is obsolete You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict Famine is disappearing You are at more risk of obesity than starvation Death is just a technical problem Equality is out — but immortality is in What does our future hold? Today there is just one. Homo Sapiens. 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.
Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities.
Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?
Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues.
The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorienting change. Are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?
Ultra-topical' Guardian. What are the biggest problems facing us in the 21st century? How does the future of A. I change the meaning of being human? How should we prepare our children for what lies ahead? Yuval Noah Harari answers these questions and so much more. With technology advancing faster than we are able to fully understand it and the world seeming to be more split than ever, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores todays most urgent issues as we move into an uncertain future.
Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life, ensuring we are better prepared for what is to come. Throughout twenty-one profound and very relevant chapters, Harari explores a wide range of topics. Social, political, technological and existential issues are all covered as are solutions on how we can best prepare for a future that is very different from the current world we live in.
Bill Gates had this to say about the original:. Twelve thousand years ago, we humans fell into a trap. Volume II of Sapiens: A Graphic History tells the story of how we took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition. Sound sombre? Not with this cast of entertaining characters, returning from Volume I to explore the Agricultural Revolution.
Yuval, Zoe, Prof. Fiction — are all back to travel the length and breadth of human history. The cunning Mephisto shows them how to entrap humans, King Hammurabi lays down the law, and Confucius explains harmonious society.
The origins of modern farming are introduced through Elizabethan tragedy, the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News, the story of urbanization is told as a travel brochure offering discount journeys to ancient Babylon and China, while the history of inequality is scouted out in a superhero detective story. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions to Big Ideas, as he turns publishers golden dream books into dross.
In the grand tradition of Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg, Crace takes the books that produce the most media hype and retells each story in its authors inimitable style.
Byatt, John LeCarre, Michael Crichton and Ian McEwan all emerge delightfully scathed in this book that makes it easy to talk knowingly about books youve never bothered to read or, for that matter, should have. Do you avoid writing all over the insides of your brand new books just so you can keep them in perfect condition? How much effort does it take for you to extract all of your notes, post-its, highlights and dog ears from your books and eBooks?
And when was the last time you reviewed and of those notes that you spent all that time making, anyway? So many people had been having the same problem. It turns out, though, that there are ways to slow down the rate of forgetting and sometimes even eliminate forgetting altogether if we take some simple actions. Real learning doesn't occur on the first read of a book. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.
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