Unstoppable Us
1 primary work • 3 total works
Book 2
Humans may have taken over the world, but what happened next? How did our hunter-gatherer ancestors become village farmers? Why were kingdoms and laws established? How did we go from being the rulers of Earth to the rulers of each other?
And why isn’t the world fair?
The answer to all of that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever hear. And it’s a true story!
From cultivating land and sharing resources to building pyramids and paying taxes, prepare to discover how humans established civilization, endured the consequences for it, and created history-changing inventions along the way.
In Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World, acclaimed author Yuval Noah Harari explored the early history of humankind. In Volume 2, he is back with another expertly crafted story of how human society evolved and flourished. His dynamic writing is accompanied by maps, a timeline, and full-color illustrations, making the incredible story of our past fun, engaging, and impossible to put down.
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*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes the next volume in the incredible story of the human race, for younger readers.*
Something really strange happened 10,000 years ago, and it changed everything.
Why did millions of people agree to obey a few leaders? Where did kings and kingdoms come from?
The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story.
Have you ever wondered how we got here? From gathering berries and hunting mammoths, to shopping at supermarkets and letting people tell us what to do?
You might hear a lot of people say 'the world isn't fair'. But why isn't it? And how did it become so?
In Unstoppable Us: Volume 1, we learned how humans told stories to become rulers of the world - for good and bad. Now, in this next chapter of the incredible true tale of the Unstoppables, find out how we learned to control animals like dogs, chicken and cows . . .
And how a handful of humans learned to control everyone else.
©2024 Yuval Noah Harari (P)2024 Penguin Audio
"Gripping and thought-provoking." —The New York Times
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
Humans are the most dominant species to ever exist. But how did we get that way? The answer is one of the strangest tales you'll ever here...
Unstoppable Us, Volume 2: Why the World Isn't Fair
What happened next? How did our hunter-gatherer ancestors become farmers? Why were kingdoms and laws established? How did we go from being the rulers of Earth to the rulers of each other?
Acclaimed author Yuval Noah Harari has expertly crafted two extraordinary stories of how humans learned to not only survive but also thrive on Earth, complete with maps, a timeline, and full-color illustrations that bring his dynamic, unputdownable writing to life.