PublishedJonathan Cape, September 2018 |
ISBN9781787330870 |
FormatSoftcover, 368 pages |
Dimensions21.6cm × 13.5cm × 2.7cm |
Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is increasingly hard to comprehend, encouraging us to focus our minds on the essential questions we should be asking ourselves today.
Employing his trademark entertaining and lucid style, Harari will examine some of the world's most urgent issues, including terrorism, fake news and immigration, as well as turning to more individual concerns, from resilience and humility to meditation.
Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
I’m sure many readers will be familiar with historian Harari’s earlier books Sapiens, which surveys the entire length of human history, from the evolution of Homo sapiens in the Stone Age up to the political and technological revolutions of the 21st century, and Homo Deus, which examines possibilities of the future of Homo sapiens.
Harari’s new book looks at now – at our present-day concerns. As an historian, he’s adept at setting them in the context of centuries of human evolution.
Religion, Nationalism, Factory-Farming, Technology, Immigration, Terrorism, Liberal Democracy, Work – they’re all discussed in nice digestible chunks over 350 pages.
