Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow / Yuval Noah Harari ; translated by the author.
Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow / Yuval Noah Harari ; translated by the author.
Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow / Yuval Noah Harari ; translated by the author.
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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
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G 2017/2898
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English
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Physical content
449 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The new human agenda -- Homo sapiens conquers the world. The Anthropocene ; The human spark -- Homo sapiens gives meaning to the world. The storytellers ; The odd couple ; The modern covenant ; The humanist revolution -- Homo sapiens loses control. The time bomb in the laboratory ; The great decoupl...
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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
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First U.S. edition.
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[2017]
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Summary
Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together...
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Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow / Yuval Noah Harari ; translated by the author.
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"First published as The History of Tomorrow in Hebrew in Israel in 2015 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir. Previously published in Great Britain in 2016 by Harville Secker, a division of Penguin Random House Group Ltd."--Title page verso.
Translation of: ha-Hisṭoryah shel ha-maḥar. 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-430) and index.
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G 2017/2898
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74VKVaQxE2Rb
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ISBN
9780062464316
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909.83
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991024104416102626
