Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Record no. 58971)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 58971 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260219124018.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780771038501 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | AIS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 909 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Yuval Noah Harari |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Canada |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Group |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2014 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. 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, paleontology 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 ... and our future. |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Nonfiction |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | History |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Psychology |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Philosophy |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Science |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Anthropology |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="<WEB_URL_ROOT_PATH>/MNG06/Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari.pdf"><WEB_URL_ROOT_PATH>/MNG06/Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari.pdf</a> |
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