Ricard Zaplana Ruiz – illustratör

Brought to you by Puffin.*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.*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?The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you''ll ever hear. And it''s a true story . . .Have you ever wondered how we got here? From hunting mammoths, to flying to the moon?It is because we are unstoppable. But what made us so? Well, we have the most amazing superpower: the ability to tell stories. Fairy tales have led us from imagining ghosts and spirits to being able to create money (yes, really!).And this has made us very powerful . . . but very deadly. Nothing stands in our way, and we always want more.So get ready for the most amazing story there ever was - the incredible true tale of the Unstoppables. 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 . . . and how YOU have the superpower to change the world.This is history like you''ve never experienced it before.© Yubal Noah Harari 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Brought to you by Puffin.*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes the next volume in the incredible story of the human race, for younger readers.*Something really strange happened 10,000 years ago, and it changed everything.Why did millions of people agree to obey a few leaders? Where did kings and kingdoms come from? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you''ll ever hear. And it''s a true story. Have you ever wondered how we got here? From gathering berries and hunting mammoths, to shopping at supermarkets and letting people tell us what to do?You might hear a lot of people say ''the world isn''t fair''. But why isn''t it? And how did it become so?In Unstoppable Us: Volume 1, we learned how humans told stories to become rulers of the world - for good and bad. Now, in this next chapter of the incredible true tale of the Unstoppables, find out how we learned to control animals like dogs, chicken and cows . . .And how a handful of humans learned to control everyone else.©2024 Yuval Noah Harari (P)2024 Penguin Audio

From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes the next volume in the incredible story of the human race, for younger readers.Why is the world not always a peaceful place?Why do we have wars?And why do we sometimes . . . not?The answer to these questions can be found in one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story. Find out about what exactly happened, thousands of years ago, when people from different tribes met. How they sometimes fought. But were sometimes able to live happily together.You ll discover how we were able to agree on rules and ideas for how life should go. Why wars were (and still are) often fought, and what we can learn from the past to make a more peaceful future.From Ancient Rome to the Mongol Khans, from Carthage to Mongolia, travel deep into the past, and around the world, to discover how people became friends and enemies, and built the world as we know it today.