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020 _a9780099590088
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100 _aHarari Yuval Noah
245 _aSapiens
245 _bA brief history of Humankind
260 _aLondon
_bVintage Books
_c2011
300 _a498P
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_cPB
500 _a Civilization - Human Beings
500 _aChronology - Historical - Cognition & Culture
500 _aTechnology & Civilization - World History
505 _aTable of Contents Timeline of History viii Part 1 The Cognitive Revolution 1 An Animal of No Significance 3 2 The Tree of Knowledge 20 3 A Day in the Life of Adam and Eve 40 4 The Flood 63 Part 2 The Agricultural Resolution 5 History's Biggest Fraud 77 6 Building Pyramids 98 7 Memory Overload 119 8 There is No Justice in History 133 Part 3 The Unification of Humankind 9 The Arrow of History 163 10 The Scent of Money 173 11 Imperial Visions 188 12 The Law of Religion 209 13 The Secret of Success 237 Part 4 The Scientific Revolution 14 The Discovery of Ignorance 247 15 The Marriage of Science and Empire 275 16 The Capitalist Creed 305 17 The Wheels of Industry 334 18 A Permanent Revolution 350 19 And They Lived Happily Ever After 376 20 The End of Homo Sapiens 397 Afterword: The Animal that Became a God 415 Notes 417 Acknowledgements 429 Image credits 431 Index 433
520 _aDonated By Vice Chancellors Office, NLSIU
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