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Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Religion lies at the heart of the human experience. The great faiths-- Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism-- together may account for up to six billion of the world's nearly seven billion people. For all the differences between their beliefs-- or between them and followers of Japanese Shinto or animistic faiths in Africa-- these adherents seek the same fulfilment [sic] from their religious experience: a feeling of connection with...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In the same series as the New Children's Encyclopedia and DK Visual Encyclopedias of Science, Art, and Geography (among others), this brand new history encyclopedia will help children, parents, and educators grasp the events, personalities, and inventions that have changed the world. From the earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia and India to the rise of populism in the US and China's growth as a global power, this ebook gives you the facts about...
Author
Pub. Date
2020-
Description
"In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. How can we see the big picture without getting caught up in the infinity of little details? One way is to step back, to look at the really big picture: the entire history of the human species. Sapiens: a graphic history is the story of how an insignificant ape became the ruler of planet Earth, capable of splitting the atom, flying to the moon, and manipulating the genetic code."--Description...
Author
Series
Sapiens A Graphic History volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution—when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.
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