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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari ; [translated by the author, with the help of John Purcell and Haim Watzman].

By: Harari, Yuval N [author,, translator.]Contributor(s): Purcell, John [translator.] | Watzman, Haim [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publisher: London : Vintage Books, 2015Description: x, 498 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780099590088Uniform titles: Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut. English Subject(s): Civilization -- History | Human beings -- History | World history | Chronology, Historical | Technology and civilization -- History | Cognition and cultureLOC classification: CB113.H4 | H3713 2015
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 -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits -- Index
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CB88 .K7812 2002 在时间的长河里 : CB88 .K7812 2002 在时间的长河里 : CB113.H4 H3713 2011 Sapiens : CB113.H4 H3713 2015 Sapiens : CB151 .Q45 2013 秦漢VS羅馬 : CB161 .L4 2005 迎向未來的 10 堂課 / CB161 .M3812 2000 藍色的承諾 /

First published in hardback by Harvill Secker in 2014 -- from title page verso

First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir -- from title verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-480) and index (pages 485-498).

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 -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits -- Index

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