"Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari - Reviewed by TM Rajat Ray
This is a book I wanted to read for some time and I was not disappointed. Large in scope, full of insights and examples, it left me quite enriched. Even if some of the concepts sound novel, they are beievable. I read it like a thriller. About the author: Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Apart from Sapiens, he is the author of some more bestsellers: "Homo Deu s: A Brief History of Tomorrow" and " 21 Lessons for the 21st Century" . About the book: This book of around 500 pages cuts a swathe across human history, focussing however on Homo Sapiens, who we are descended from, and their social development over the last 70,000 years. Why did Homo Sapiens suddenly become the king of the earth? What were the turning points? The writer combines facts with theories in a gripping tale that often turns on its head our ideas about our own dominance of the planet. T...