With full-colour illustrations showing the relentless rise and rise of the human race, this is history like you've never experienced it before. and how YOU have the superpower to change the world. Find out how fire shrank our stomachs, how our ancestors spoke to animals, what football can tell us about being human, how we used our superpower for good and bad. So get ready for the most amazing story there ever was - the incredible true tale of the Unstoppables. Nothing stands in our way, and we always want more. Fairy tales have led us from imagining ghosts and spirits to being able to create money (yes, really!).Īnd this has made us very powerful. But what made us so? Well, we have the most amazing superpower: the ability to tell stories. Have you ever wondered how we got here? From hunting mammoths, to flying to the moon? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. Huxley was writing in the early 1930s with Stalin and Hitler. We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? I think Brave New World is the best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient. If you think atom bombs are scary, wait till you read what a two-dimensional. *From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* 'Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem starts with China’s Cultural Revolution and the Sino-American arms race, but quickly leaves such mundane affairs behind to explore what happens to the universe when you weaponize the laws of physics.
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