sapiens book review

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A Christian perspective on Harari's book that covers 13.5 billion years of human history. The reviewer praises the book's engagement and analysis, but criticizes its flaws in history, philosophy and religion.

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The book, published in Hebrew as "A Brief History of Humankind," became an Israeli best-seller; then, as "Sapiens," it became an international one. Readers were offered the vertiginous ...

A historian applies scientific research to every aspect of human history, from the Cognitive Revolution to the Scientific Revolution. He argues that all human culture is an invention and explores the implications of our biological and cultural evolution.

Historian Yuval Noah Harari wrote a book back in 2015 that looked at the entirety of human history; from hunter-gatherers to space exploration. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind packs all of ...

A nonfiction book that explores the history and evolution of humans and the modern world. Learn three mind-blowing facts about self-preservation, societal values, and happiness from the author's perspective.

Written in vivid language with memorable turns of phrase, Sapiens is a chronicle that captures the genealogy of our civilization from the perspective of three historical movements: the Cognitive Revolution about 70,000 years ago, the Agricultural Revolution about 12,000 years ago, and the Scientific Revolution about 500 years ago. For Harari, each of these revolutions enabled our human ...

About this book. A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. Some Assembly Required. by Neil Shubin ...

With the publication in the United States of his best-selling "Sapiens" in 2015, the Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari arrived at the top rank of public intellectuals, a ...

The book was originally published in Israel in 2011 and became a best-seller. There is enormous gratification in reading books of this nature, an encyclopedic approach from a well-versed scholar who is concise but eloquent, both skeptical and opinionated, and open enough to entertain competing points of view. As Harari firmly believes, history ...

If we are about to change, then at their best Harari's narratives, theories, conjectures and connections give us ways of thinking about what we've been like so far. Sapiens: a Brief History of ...

What The Reviewers Say. Rave John Carey, The Sunday Times (UK) Sapiens is the sort of book that sweeps the cobwebs out of your brain. Its author, Yuval Noah Harari, is a young Israeli academic and an intellectual acrobat whose logical leaps have you gasping with admiration. That said, the joy of reading him is not matched by any uplift in his ...

Homo sapiens has the special ability to unite millions of strangers around commons myths. Ideas like freedom, human rights, gods, laws, and capitalism exist in our imaginations, yet they can bind us together and motivate us to cooperate on complex tasks. As much as I enjoyed Sapiens, there was plenty to disagree with in the book.

Although designed for a popular audience Sapiens is also for the new student of the broadest history imaginable. The accidental as well as the deliberate reader will have to think—and that means much in the 21st century. Robert S. Davis is an award-winning senior professor of genealogy, geography, and history.

Here, a cartoon version of the professor takes other characters (and readers) on something of a madcap thrill ride through the history of human evolution, with a timeline that begins almost 14 billion years ago and extends into the future, when humanity becomes the defendant in "Ecosystem vs. Homo Sapiens," a trial presided over by "Judge ...

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, Qitzur Toldot ha-Enoshut) is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 based on a series of lectures Harari taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in English in 2014. The book, focusing on Homo sapiens, surveys the history of humankind, starting from the Stone Age ...

By Yuval Noah Harari HarperCollins, 443 pages, $29.99. Religion provided early versions of the human story: Zoroastrian sacred texts, the Book of Genesis, the Popul Vuh. These are immensely ...

This is my book summary of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary also includes key lessons and important passages from the book. Human cultures began to take shape about 70,000 years ago. There have been three major revolutions in human history: the ...

It's an excellent book I'm happy to talk about. Harari is on the younger side of the scholarly world, barely 40 years old now, which is a year after the book's initial publication and certainly years after he started work on it. He is a gifted thinker and writer, with a clear, wise voice and a descriptive, logical style that seems timeless.

By the time I'd finished the book it wasn't entirely clear to me whether the "brief" in the title is meant in earnest. For most readers 443 pages of closely typed prose isn't brief. For ...

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Hardcover - Illustrated, February 10, 2015. by Yuval Noah Harari (Author) 4.6 138,809 ratings. Part of: A Brief History Series (2 books) Amazon Charts #11 this week. See all formats and editions. Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. New York Times Bestseller.

Consider the phenomenon known as "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind." First written in Hebrew and self-published in Israel in 2011, the book by Yuval Noah Harari found an American publisher in 2014, quickly became an international best-seller in 60 languages, and then morphed into a kind of multi-media empire called Sapienship.