Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GE.W FS.E Hara / College 2d - Geschichte	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 08.06.2024	Vorbestellungen: 0

100,000 years ago, at least six species of human 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, palaeontology, 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. (Quelle: Copac)

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Timeline of history

Part 1: The cognitive revolution

1. An animal of no significance

2. The tree of knowledge

3. A day in the life of Adam and Eve

4. The flood

Part 2: The agricultural revolution

5. History's biggest fraud

6. Building pyramids

7. Memory overload

8. There is no justice in history

Part 3: The unification of humankind

9. The arrow of history

10. The scent of money

11. Imperial visions

12. The law of religion

13. The secret of success

Part 4: The scientific revolution

14. The discovery of ignorance

15. The marriage of science and empire

16. The capitalist creed

17. The wheels of industry

18. A permanent revolution

19. And they lived happily ever after

20. The end of Homo sapiens

Afterword

The animal that became a god