Sapiens. De animales a dioses: Una breve historia de la humanidad es una exploraciĂłn fascinante de cĂłmo la biologĂa y la historia han definido a la humanidad. Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los historiadores más interesantes de nuestros tiempos, nos lleva en un viaje desde que los primeros humanos caminaron sobre la Tierra hasta los avances de las tres grandes revoluciones que nuestra especie ha protagonizado: la cognitiva, la agrĂcola y la cientĂfica.
Utilizando hallazgos de disciplinas tan diversas como la biologĂa, la antropologĂa, la paleontologĂa o la economĂa, Harari examina cĂłmo las corrientes de la historia han moldeado nuestra sociedad, la fauna y la flora que nos rodean, e incluso nuestras personalidades.
El libro plantea preguntas profundas: ÂżHemos ganado en felicidad a medida que ha avanzado la historia? ÂżSeremos capaces de liberar nuestra conducta de la herencia del pasado? ÂżPodemos hacer algo para influir en los siglos futuros? Audaz y provocador, Sapiens cuestiona todo lo que creĂamos saber sobre el ser humano: nuestros orĂgenes, ideas, acciones, poder... y nuestro futuro.
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness, and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside favela. Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage.
It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing – and controversial – is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.