The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David WengrowA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolutionfrom the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequalityand revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlikeeither free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be

Meditation is a contemplative art

she offers an absorbing portrait of a life that has intermingled with food in moving and unexpected ways

finding her way back to the real world seems achievable

plotting her destruction

The billionaire CEO never planned to marry—

offers him an escape from his dreary life

'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world

slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world

and in Iceland another volcano erupts

Use is made of a wide range of source materials

this book builds your cosmic insight and perspective through a marvelously entertaining narrative

of ants and pomegranate trees