Sapiens/Homo Deus box set - Hardcover

Harari, Yuval Noah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062834312 ISBN 13: 9780062834317

Publisher: Harper, 2017

Synopsis

Discover humanity’s past and its future in this special box set featuring the bestselling Sapiens—a reading pick of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg—and its acclaimed companion Homo Deus.

Renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari became an instant international sensation with the publication of his worldwide bestselling book Sapiens, which has since been translated into over 65 languages and served as the blueprint for his provocative follow-up, Homo Deus.

In Sapiens, 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, paleontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Bold and wide-ranging, Sapiens integrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our heritage...and our future.

In Homo Deus, Harari turns his focus toward our unknown future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. While humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war over the past century, these are still countless challenges ahead of us. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life--and predicts the next stage of evolution.

Strikingly insightful yet clear and accessible in tone, these two books are the foundations for understanding our pasts to predict our futures. Including full-color illustrations throughout, this box set is a great gift for existing fans of Yuval Noah Harari and anybody who is curious about what it means to be human.

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About the Author

Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling historian and philosopher, is considered one of the world’s most influential intellectuals today. His popular books―including Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us―have sold more than fifty million copies in sixty-five languages. Harari, with his husband, Itzik Yahav, cofounded Sapienship, a social impact company with projects in the fields of education and storytelling, whose main goal is to focus the public conversation on the most important global challenges facing the world today. Harari has a PhD in history from the University of Oxford. He has been a lecturer at the Department of History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062834312
• ISBN 13: 9780062834317
• Binding: Hardcover