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The Royal Society of Biologists in the UK shortlisted the book in its 2015 Book Awards. [15] Bill Gates ranked Sapiens among his ten favorite books, [16] and Mark Zuckerberg also recommended it. [17] Kirkus Reviews awarded a star to the book, noting that it is "the great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor". [18]
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Dutch: De Meeste Mensen Deugen: Een Nieuwe Geschiedenis van de Mens) is a 2019 non-fiction book by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman. It was published by Bloomsbury in May 2021. [4] It argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings ...
280 pp (paperback) The Story of Mankind is a book written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon. It was published in 1921. In 1922, it was awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. This was the first year the Newbery Medal was awarded.
Following the upload of an abridged version of the book's story by YouTuber Alt Shift X in June 2021, [6] All Tomorrows saw a particular surge in popularity online during the summer of 2021. [4] Among other things, there was a surge of internet memes based on the book, primarily on YouTube and Twitter [7] as well as fan art based on the ...
ISBN. 978-0-241-40242-9. Website. https://dawnofeverything.industries. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity is a 2021 book by anthropologist and activist David Graeber, and archaeologist David Wengrow. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2021 by Allen Lane (an imprint of Penguin Books).
Earth Abides. Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools. Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation ...
In 1981, Simon & Schuster gave Sagan a $2 million advance on the novel. At the time, "the advance was the largest ever made for a book that had not yet been written." [3] The first printing was 265,000 copies. In the first two years it sold 1,700,000 copies. It was a main selection of Book-of-the-Month-Club. [4]
Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. [1][2][3] It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. The book was published in 2014, and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award the following year.