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Sapiens A Graphic History Volume 2 The Pillars of Civilization

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: Sapiens: A Graphic History ; 2Set: Publication details: London Jonathan Cape 2021Description: 252 p color illus 29/21,5/2,7 cm HardboundISBN:
  • 9781787333765
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: In the second "Sapiens" volume, Yuval Noah Harari 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. 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, and the story of urbanization is told as a travel brochure offering discount journeys to ancient Babylon and China
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In the second "Sapiens" volume, Yuval Noah Harari 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. 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, and the story of urbanization is told as a travel brochure offering discount journeys to ancient Babylon and China

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