Derek Perkins

Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. Here, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies.