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  • Published: 4 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448190690
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

Formats & editions
Paperback
31 Jan 2019
Paperback
1 May 2015
Hardback
16 Jan 2024
EBook
4 Sep 2014
Audiobook
30 Apr 2015
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What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

**THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**

'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?

Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.

Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.

In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going.

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PRAISE FOR SAPIENS:

'Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last... It may be the best book I've ever read' Chris Evans

'Sweeps the cobwebs out of your brain... Radiates power and clarity' Sunday Times

'It altered how I view our species and our world' Guardian

'Startling... It changes the way you look at the world' Simon Mayo

'I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who's interested in the history and future of our species' Bill Gates

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
  • Published: 4 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448190690
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512
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About the author

Yuval Noah Harari

Prof Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has become an international phenomenon attracting a legion of fans from Bill Gates and Barack Obama to Chris Evans and Jarvis Cocker, and is published in over forty-five languages worldwide. It was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller and was in the Top Ten for over nine months in paperback. His follow-up to Sapiens, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow was also a Top Ten Bestseller and was described by the Guardian as ‘even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens’.

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Praise for Sapiens

Insightful, provocative and certainly gives you a sense of perspective

Diederik Vos, Creativepool

It succeeds through its eclectic scope, its readability, and its author’s willingness to offer ethical judgements

Martin Rees, Observer

Shortly before the pandemic, I read Sapiens... It's not an exaggeration to say I've thought of it every day since

Curtis Sittenfeld, Guardian