What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question - Hardcover

Vine, Jeremy; Jones, Phil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147227251X ISBN 13: 9781472272515

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.

What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us, to Caitlin Moran on the joy of Friday nights, and A C Grayling on how we express ourselves through culture: this illuminating book shares 130 mind-expanding answers to that question.

We all want to understand our place in the universe and find a sense of purpose in the life. This book will help the reader navigate that journey with the help of leading names from the worlds of literature, history, philosophy, politics, sport, comedy and popular culture.

Originally broadcast as a popular feature on the Jeremy Vine Show, What Makes Us Human? includes short essays from: Andrew Marr, Carlo Rovelli, Marian Keyes, Alain de Botton, Robert Webb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry, and many more.

About this title

About the Authors

Jeremy Vine is one of the UK's best-known broadcasters. He presents a weekday show on Radio 2, radio's most popular news programme. He also presents Jeremy Vine on Channel 5, a daily current affairs programme, and he fronts Eggheads, one of the longest-running quiz shows in British TV history.
Jeremy is an accomplished journalist and writer and has previously published two works of non-fiction.
He lives in Chiswick with his wife and their two daughters.

Phil Jones, born in 1958 in Wimbledon, is one of the BBC's longest-serving editors. He has worked on The Jeremy Vine Show (and its predecessor The Jimmy Young Show) for 30 years, and thought up the What Makes Us Human? feature when he was cycling back from a party while drunk.

From the Back Cover

'We are made up of the same stuff as atoms, stars' dust' Carlo Rovelli

'History gives us who we are today by being who we were yesterday' Michael Rosen

'My language is a piece of who I am, perhaps even the defining piece' Stephen Fry

We all want to understand our place in the universe and find a sense of purpose in life. This illuminating book will help you navigate that journey, through mind-expanding answers to one question:

What Makes Us Human?

'Consider, for instance, Friday night - one of mankind's greatest inventions' Caitlin Moran

'We need to realise that the best things in life are not things' Alexei Sayle

'We change the world around us. We are because we make' Andrew Marr

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147227251X
• ISBN 13: 9781472272515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416