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The Invention of Yesterday Heather Zschock Afternoon Hours of a HermitBy: Tamim Ansary In this "terrific" (San Francisco Chronicle) book, an award winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age Traveling across millennia and cultures, The Invention of Yesterday argues that world history is a narrative we're constantly inventing. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of hunter gatherers, each one telling itself a story of the