| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Sapiens :/ Yuval Noah Harari ; translated by the author, with the help of John Purcell and Haim Watzman. |
| Reminder of title: |
a brief history of mankind / |
| Author: |
Harari, Yuval N. |
| other author: |
Purcell, John. |
| Published: |
London :Vintage Books, : 2014., |
| Description: |
x, 498 p. :ill., maps, facsimiles ;20 cm. |
| Notes: |
First published by Harvill Secker in 2014--Title page verso. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Chronology, Historical. - |
| ISBN: |
9780099590088 |