Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow, Paperback Book, By: Yuval Noah Harari Dr

Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. Above all it will make you think in ways you had not thought before." Daniel Kahneman author of Thinking Fast and Slow"Thrilling to watch such a talented author trample so freely across so many disciplines... Harari's skill lies in the way he tilts the prism in all these fields and looks at the world in different ways providing fresh angles on what we thought we knew... scintillating." Financial Times"Spellbinding... This is a very intelligent book full of sharp insights and mordant wit... It is a quirky and cool book with a sliver of ice at its heart... It is hard to imagine anyone could read this book without getting an occasional vertiginous thrill." Guardian"Harari is an intellectual magpie who has plucked theories and data from many disciplines - including philosophy theology computer science and biology - to produce a brilliantly original thought-provoking and important study of where mankind is heading." Evening Standard (London)"I enjoyed reading about these topics not from another futurist but from a historian contextualizing our current ways of thinking amid humanity's long march-especially...with Harari's ability to capsulize big ideas memorably and mingle them with a light dry humor. Harari offers not just history lessons but a meta-history lesson." Washington Post"What elevates Harari above many chroniclers of our age is his exceptional clarity and focus." London Sunday Times"A remarkable book full of insights and thoughtful reinterpretations of what we thought we knew about ourselves and our history." The Guardian"Provocative...the handiwork of a gifted thinker." Jennifer Senior New York Times"[A great book...not only alters the way you see the world after you've read it it also casts the past in a different light. In Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari shows us where mankind is headed in an absolutely clear-sighted & accessible manner." Mail on Sunday"Like all great epics Sapiens demanded a sequel. Homo Deus in which that likely apocalyptic future is imagined in spooling detail is that book. It is a highly seductive scenario planner for the numerous ways in which we might overreach ourselves." The Observer (London)"Thank God someone finally wrote [this exact book." Sebastian Junger New York Times Book "Harari is an exceptional writer who seems to have been specially chosen by the muses as a conduit for the zeitgeist... Fascinating reading." Times Literary Supplement (London)"Sapiens takes readers on a sweeping tour of the history of our species.... Harari's formidable intellect sheds light on the biggest breakthroughs in the human story...important reading for serious-minded self-reflective sapiens." Washington Post"Sapiens tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world and it is written in unforgettably vivid language." Jared Diamond Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns Germs and Steel Collapse and The World until Yesterday"In Sapiens Harari delves deep into our history as a species to help us understand who we are and what made us this way. An engrossing read." Dan Ariely New York Times Bestselling author of Predictably Irrational The Upside of Irrationality and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty"Provocative... essential reading." New York Times Book "Thought-provoking and enlightening Harari's books is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of our species." BookPage"...[Shares DNA with the work of writers like Jared Diamond ... while drawing freely from other disciplines in both the humanities and sciences. It's emphatically a work for the general reader eager to grapple with big ideas but who is equally hungry for context for today's headlines." Shelf Awareness From the Back Cover Yuval Noah Harari author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens returns with an equally original compelling and provocative book turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible: turn the uncontrollable forces of naturenamely famine plague and warinto manageable challenges. Today more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers terrorists and criminals combined. We are the only species in earth's long history that has single-handedly changed the entire planet and we no longer expect any higher being to mold our destinies for us.What then will replace famine plague and war at the top of the human agenda? What destinies will we set for ourselves and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the dreams and nightmares of the project that will shape the twenty-first century from overcoming death to creating artificial life. But the pursuit of these very goals may ultimately render most huma