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Genre/Form: | Forecasts |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Yuval N Harari |
ISBN: | 9780525512172 0525512179 9781787330870 1787330877 9781984801494 198480149X 9780525639855 0525639853 9780525512196 0525512195 |
OCLC Number: | 1029771757 |
Awards: | New York Times Bestseller Nonfiction 2018. |
Description: | xix, 372 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Part I: The technological challenge -- Disillusionment: The end of history has been postponed -- Work: When you grow up, you might not have a job -- Liberty: Big data is watching you -- Equality: Those who own the data own the future -- Part II: The political challenge -- Community: Humans have bodies -- Civilization: There is just one civilization in the world -- Nationalism: Global problems need global answers -- Religion: God now serves the nation -- Immigration: Some cultures might be better than others -- Part III: Despair and hope -- Terrorism: Don't panic -- War: Never underestimate human stupidity -- Humility: You are not the center of the world -- God: Don't take the name of God in vain -- Secularism: Acknowledge your shadow -- Part IV: Truth -- Ignorance: You know less than you think -- Justice: Our sense of justice might be out of date -- Post-truth: Some fake news lasts forever -- Science fiction: The future is not what you see in the movies -- Part V: Resilience -- Education: Change is the only constant -- Meaning: Life is not a story -- Meditation: Just observe. |
Other Titles: | Twenty one lessons for the twenty first century |
Responsibility: | Yuval Noah Harari. |
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"Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical... Harari's big selling point [is] the ambition and breadth of his work, smashing together unexpected ideas into dazzling observations." * Guardian * "There is surely no one alive who is better at explaining our world than Yuval Noah Harari - he is the lecturer we all wish we'd had at university. Reading this book, I must have interrupted my partner a hundred times to pass on fascinating things I'd just read. Harari has done it again - 21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book." -- Adam Kay "Erudite, illuminating, vivid. [Harari's] lessons suggest new ways of thinking about current problems... a splendid, sobering, stirring call to arms." * Sunday Times * "Fascinating... compelling... [Harari] has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century." -- Bill Gates * New York Times * "The great thinker of our age." * The Times * Read more...


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- Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
- Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
- Social prediction.
- World politics.
- Conduct of life.
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 21st Century.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
- HISTORY -- Civilization.
- Twenty-first century.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Futurologie
- Philosophie
- Weltanschauung
- Weltproblematik
- Modern civilization.
- Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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