Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]

" Sapiens tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language." -- Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel , Collapse , and The World until Yesterday " Sapiens is learned, thought-provoking and crisply written.... Fascinating." -- Wall Street Journal "In Sapiens , Harari delves deep into our history as a species to help us understand who we are and what made us this way. An engrossing read." -- Dan Ariely, New York Times Bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty "Yuval Noah Harari''s celebrated Sapiens does for human evolution what Stephen Hawking''s A Brief History of Time did for physics.... He does a superb job of outlining our slow emergence and eventual domination of the planet." -- Forbes "Ambitious and illuminating ...the wonderful and terrifying saga of the human species on earth." -- Christian Science Monitor "[I]nteresting and provocative...It gives you a sense of perspective on how briefly we''ve been on this earth, how short things like agriculture and science have been around, and why it makes sense for us to not take them for granted." -- President Barack Obama "I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history...you''ll have a hard time putting it down." -- Bill Gates "Thank God someone finally wrote [this] exact book." -- Sebastian Junger "Yuval Noah Harari is an emerging rock-star lecturer at the nexus of history and science.... Sapiens takes readers on a sweeping tour of the history of our species.... Harari''s formidable intellect sheds light on the biggest breakthroughs in the human story...important reading for serious-minded, self-reflective sapiens." -- Washington Post "It is one of the best accounts by a Homo sapiens of the unlikely story of our violent, accomplished species....It is one hell of a story. And it has seldom been told better.... Compulsively readable and impossibly learned." -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post "This was the most surprising and thought-provoking book I read this year." -- Atlantic.com "Yuval Noah Harari''s full-throated review of our species may have been blurbed by Jared Diamond, but Harari''s conclusions are at once balder and less tendentious than that of his famous colleague." -- New York magazine "This title is one of the exceptional works of nonfiction that is both highly intellectual and compulsively readable... a fascinating, hearty read." -- Library Journal (starred review) "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....The great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Writing with wit and verve, Harari...attempts to explain how Homo sapiens came to be the dominant species on Earth as well as the sole representative of the human genus.... Provocative and entertaining." -- Publishers Weekly "The most idea-packed work of non-fiction I''ve read in years." -- Dick Meyer, www.abcactionnews.com "In this sweeping look at the history of humans, Harari offers readers the chance to reconsider, well, everything, from a look at why Homo sapiens endured to a compelling discussion of how society organizes itself through fictions." -- Booklist Best...

Auteur

Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling historian and philosopher, is considered one of the world’s most influential intellectuals today. His popular books—including Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us—have sold more than forty-five million copies in sixty-five lan­guages. Harari, with his husband, Itzik Yahav, cofounded Sapienship, a social impact company with projects in the fields of education and storytelling, whose main goal is to focus the public conversation on the most important global challenges facing the world today. Harari has a PhD in history from the University of Oxford. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and lectures in the depart­ment of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.