It will make you see the world in a new way-and it will make you want to change what you see. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a searing story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time it is a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. In intimate, excruciating details, she recounts what it was like to be one of the few teenage camp inmates, and the tiny but miraculous twists of fate that helped her survive against all odds. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was thirteen years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lose all privacy and there isn't enough food to eat. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language.Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family-life itself.

“Here is a simple reason why Sapiens has risen explosively to the ranks of an international best-seller. History began when humans invented gods – and will end when humans become gods. With the help of novel technologies, within a few centuries or even decades, Sapiens will upgrade themselves into completely different beings, enjoying godlike qualities and abilities. We are far more powerful than our ancestors, but we aren’t much happier.Individualism was fostered by states and markets as a way of breaking up families and communities.The treatment of animals in modern agriculture may turn out to be the worst crime in history.Capitalism is a religion rather than just an economic theory – and it is the most successful religion to date.Christianity will teach modern listeners things that have been lost in time about how Jesus.

Empire is the most successful political system humans have invented, and our present era of anti-imperial sentiment is probably a short-lived aberration. Diarmaid MacCullochs Christianity is such an audio book.Money is the most universal and pluralistic system of mutual trust ever devised.The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud – wheat domesticated Sapiens rather than the other way around.Sapiens are ecological serial killers – even with stone-age tools, our ancestors wiped out half the planet’s large terrestrial mammals well before the advent of agriculture.We rule the world because we are the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in our own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights.The book’s conclusions are enlightening and at times provocative. Sapiens invites us to not only connect past developments with present concerns, but moreover to question our basic narratives of the world.

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