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

Humans took over the world. But then what happened? How did hunter-gatherers who once roamed freely become farmers tied to the same patch of land? Why did kings and laws and taxes appear? How did we go from being the rulers of the natural world to being the rulers, and subjects, of each other? And why, after all our ingenuity and cooperation, is the world still so profoundly unfair? In the second volume of his New York Times bestselling Unstoppable Us series, Yuval Noah Harari picks up where the first volume left off, taking young readers from the Agricultural Revolution through the rise of the first civilizations and the ancient wonders of prehistoric Egypt. He examines how the shift from foraging to farming changed not just what people ate but how they were organized, who held power, and what life was actually like for the vast majority of people who built the world's first great societies. Harari does not flinch from the difficult question at the heart of the volume: why did a more organized and productive human world also become a more unequal one? Full-color illustrations by Ricard Zaplana Ruiz, maps, and timelines make the story as visually engaging as it is thought-provoking, for readers aged nine to twelve.