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A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
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Shared stories can coordinate strangers at a scale that individual trust cannot.
Harari offers a panoramic introduction to how humans organise around agriculture, money, religion and political institutions. Its practical value is the connection between belief and coordination: teams and states depend on conventions people collectively accept. Use it to examine the story supporting an institution rather than merely its formal rules.
WTM’s judgement: a strong opening map, with a scale that can compress disagreement and regional variation. A sweeping narrative is not a substitute for specialised history. Ask whose experience disappears when a system is explained through one dominant story, then read a contrasting account alongside it.
ONE PRACTICAL NEXT STEP
List three shared assumptions holding one organisation together; identify which has evidence and which rests on convention.
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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and Nexus. His writing explores human history, the relationship between biology and culture, and the ethical questions raised by emerging technologies.
Official biography or website ↗Catalogue updated: 10 October 2026. The Webflow Press page is the editable editorial record; this portal carries the launch catalogue edition.
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