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Ashland Books @ Noon September 2019 Picks
Awesome Nonfiction Audiobooks
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
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"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most...
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Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new illustrated book for middle-grade readers that looks at the early history of humankind. Even though we'll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive-and we're the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become "unstoppable"? The answer to that is...
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Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
2022-
Language
English
Description
"From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new illustrated book for middle-grade readers that looks at the early history of humankind. Even though we'll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive-and we're the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become "unstoppable"? The answer to that is...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"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. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonald's than from...
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Debate
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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El historiador y fil�osofo m�as influyente de la actualidad nos narr�o de forma extraordinaria la compleja trama de la historia de la humanidad en su libro Sapiens. De animales a dioses. Con la ayuda de David Vandermeulen y las maravillosas ilustraciones de Daniel Casanave, este oto�no publicamos Sapiens. El nacimiento de la humanidad, la adaptaci�on gr�afica de un best seller internacional que lleva quince millones de ejemplares vendidos...
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