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A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah HarariIf you liked Sapiens, try these:
by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Published Apr 2023
Read ReviewsA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
by Neil Shubin
Published Aug 2021
Read ReviewsThe author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that explains how the incredible diversity of life on our planet came to be.
by Bill Bryson
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsBill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.
by Frans de Waal
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsNew York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
by Paige Williams
Published Sep 2019
Read ReviewsNew Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams explores the riveting and perilous world of fossil collectors in this true tale of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia.
by Henry Hemming
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsThe untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare forever.
by Cynthia Barnett
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsRain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. This is the first book to tell the story of rain.
by Simon Barnes
Published Dec 2015
Read ReviewsThis fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures - weird, wonderful, and everything in between - are inextricably linked.
by William deBuys
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsAn award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles.
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA beguiling, optimistic engagement with the changes affecting every part of our lives, The Human Age is a wise and beautiful book that will astound, delight, and inform intelligent life for a long time to come.
by Rob Dunn
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsA biologist shows the influence of wild species on our well-being and the world and how nature still clings to us - and always will.
by Jared Diamond
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsThe World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years - a past that has mostly vanished - and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
by Neil Shubin
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsFrom one of our finest and most popular science writers comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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