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Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari is the Israeli historian behind Sapiens (2011), Homo Deus (2016), 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018), and Nexus (2024). Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor.

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4.0

First published

2014

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 2014 review. A single-volume history of Homo sapiens from cognitive revolution to the present. The popular-history bestseller that defined the 2010s book-club shelf, with the trade-offs that ambition requires.