“欧洲，为什么老是抢第一？”澳大利亚知名历史学家约翰•赫斯特在本书中的一场引人入胜的探索，为我们梳理出欧洲文明所以能改变全世界的各种特质。
作者从三大元素：古希腊罗马文化、基督教教义以及日耳曼战士文化开篇，描述了这三大元素如何彼此强化，又相互对立，最终形塑为欧洲文明的内 核；继而在诸多世纪以来催生帝国与城邦，激发征服与十字军东侵，造就出许多性格截然分明的人物——如仁慈的皇帝、好斗的教皇、侠义的骑士，乃至世上第一批享受繁荣和启蒙果实的公民。哲学思维、民主制度的渊源、政治权力的传递、甚至是医学、生物学使用拉丁文的源始，这种种欧洲因素不断形塑了现代文明的各种特质，使欧洲遥遥走在现代世界的前列。
本书以清晰、幽默、发人深省的笔调，杂以活泼的插图，叙述了一个不同凡响的文明，及其对人类社会的巨大冲击与巨大贡献。

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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 and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, 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 put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.
What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.

《数学女孩》以小说的形式展开，重点描述一群年轻人探寻数学中的美。内容由浅入深，数学讲解部分十分精妙，被称为“绝赞的初等数学科普书”。内容涉及数列和数学模型、斐波那契数列、卷积、调和数、泰勒展开、巴塞尔问题、分拆数等，非常适合对数学感兴趣的初高中生以及成人阅读。

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.
Us.
Homo sapiens.
How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?
In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?
Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.