Unstoppable Us, Volume 2: Why the World Isn't Fair

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of <i>Sapiens</i>, comes the second volume in the bestselling Unstoppable Us series that traces human development from the Agricultural Revolution to Prehistoric Egypt.</b><br><br>Humans may have taken over the world, but what happened next? How did our hunter-gatherer ancestors become village farmers? Why were kingdoms and laws established? How did we go from being the rulers of Earth to the rulers of each other?<br><br>And why isn’t the world fair?<br><br>The answer to all of that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever hear. <i>And</i> it’s a true story!<br><br>From cultivating land and sharing resources to building pyramids and paying taxes, prepare to discover how humans established civilization, endured the consequences for it, and created history-changing inventions along the way. <br><br>In <i>Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World</i>, acclaimed author Yuval Noah Harari explored the early history of humankind. In <i>Volume 2</i>, he is back with another expertly crafted story of how human society evolved and flourished. His dynamic writing is accompanied by maps, a timeline, and full-color illustrations, making the incredible story of our past fun, engaging, and impossible to put down.