![]() ![]() Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Yet today there is only one-homo sapiens. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by yuval noah harari ‘The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement … his seminal work’ Guardian ‘Baldwin writes with great passion … it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy’ Sunday Times ![]() ‘Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose’ The New York Times Book Review Told in the form of two intensely personal ‘letters’, The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice. ![]() James Baldwin’s impassioned plea to ‘end the racial nightmare’ in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. ![]() ‘We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation’ The landmark work on race in America from James Baldwin, whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro ![]()
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