human beings

Examines the forces that form deserts and discusses the animals and people that inhabit them.

A graphic novel that explores the history of human beings.

A graphic novel that explores the history of human beings.

An examination of migration and settlement, covering voluntary and involuntary migration, colonization, refugee, cultural diffusion, and other related topics. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Provides information about the human brain and the differences between modern human beings, Neanderthal relatives, and modern-day chimpanzees.

Attempts to trace human origins and travels to every continent in search of the people whose DNA holds humanity's secret history.

Explores the concept of food, and why living things - i.e., animals, humans and plants need it.

Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. But when they arrived, they were not alone: the stocky, powerfully built Neanderthals had already been living there for hundreds of thousands of years. So what happened when the first modern humans encountered the Neanderthals? Did they make love or war?.

In the second "Sapiens" volume, Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of how we took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition. The origins of modern farming are introduced through Elizabethan tragedy, the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News, and the story of urbanization is told as a travel brochure offering discount journeys to ancient Babylon and China.

"Since the beginning, humans have created stories about the universe. From early mythology to modern-day science is a long journey, yet so much of our galaxy remains a mystery. What will we believe tomorrow? . . . [This book looks at] the complex and ever-evolving relationship between science and story"--Provided by publisher.