*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.*

We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world?

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 hunting mammoths, to flying to the moon?

It is because we are unstoppable. But wha...

From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes the second volume in the bestselling Unstoppable Us series that traces human development from the Agricultural Revolution to Prehistoric Egypt.

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 i...

A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensation

INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARI

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?

One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.

In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari e...

In de eerste twee succesvolle delen van Sapiens: een beeldverhaal zagen we hoe de soort Homo sapiens van nomaden in kolonisten veranderde, hoe de eerste wereldrijken ontstonden en hoe oorlog, hongersnood, ziekte en ongelijkheid tot de menselijke conditie gingen behoren. In dit derde deel zien we welke historische verschijnselen ervoor zorgden dat de mens voor het eerst als eenheid gezien kon worden. Aan de hand van een spelshow vol verwijzingen naar populaire cultuur wordt de concurrentiestri...

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.

For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI – a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. If we are s...

De wereld staat op de rand van een ecologische ondergang. Desinformatie is er in overvloed. We stormen halsoverkop het tijdperk van de AI binnen. Om goed te kunnen begrijpen wat er gebeurt, moeten we leren van het verleden en analyseren welke rol informatie voor ons speelt. Yuval Noah Harari neemt ons in Nexus mee door het stenen tijdperk, de Bijbel, vroegmoderne heksenjachten, het stalinisme, het nazisme en de heropleving van het hedendaagse populisme, en legt zo de complexe relatie tussen ...