{"product_id":"sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind","title":"SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e100,000 years ago, at least six species of human inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomo Sapiens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSapiens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBold, wide-ranging and provocative, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSapiens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power...and our future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ada-indigo-demo-store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40961771143321,"sku":"","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/7973\/6985\/products\/CleanShot2021-08-30at13.04.13_2x_eae82dc8-8651-4a32-a85b-b592b90d26df.png?v=1630343124","url":"https:\/\/ada-indigo-demo-store.myshopify.com\/products\/sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind","provider":"ada-indigo-demo-store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}