Sapiens and Homo Deus: The E-book Collection: A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

Feb 2017 · Sold by HarperCollins

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I remember I tried to read this book many years ago, but dropped it as soon as I found it boring and nothing much outside the author's own opinion. But recently I started to read it again. It's basically an opinion piece, with some facts mixed with it, from an unqualified person. Mr Yuval is not a biologist, nor a evolutionary psychologist, nor a anthropologist, his specialties reside outside the subjects of the book. Baseless assertions everywhere, postmodernist garbage everywhere, the book starts with the origins of the humans, but doon turns politics of how corporations are myths. To the author, if person A made an agreement with person B on X, then X does not exist, it's a myth, to him, something exists only if you could touch it with your hands. He then mixes god, religion, other social constructions, with laws, money and the rest of (to him) non tangible concepts. To him money is a myth because it relies on collective agreements. This is the garbage of postmodernism.

This book is fabulous. It is deep, thorough, and enlightening. I highly recommend this to anyone with an interest in history, science, politics, our religion. It leads the reader through the ages, connecting the dots of evolution, religion, social development, human understanding and politics. A must read!

Harari's sharp wit makes his great learning smoothly accessible.

About the author

Prof. 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 45 million copies in 65 languages. Harari co-founded 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 and currently lectures in the department of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.