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Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari (Fern Press, out 10 September)
Studying Nexus is an odd expertise. The standard of the textual content lurches up and down: one minute you’re studying one thing incisive, the subsequent you’re wading by way of banalities.
Its writer, Yuval Noah Harari, is a medieval historian most well-known for his e book Sapiens, a whistlestop historical past of humanity from the Stone Age to the current day. Its central thesis is that people got here to dominate the planet as a result of we will imagine in issues that solely…
