Sapience by Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari takes readers on a voyage across human history in his amazing book. He describes the evolution of Homo sapiens, the dominating species on Earth. Harari also looks at how human life has changed over time as a result of cultural and societal developments.
From the first signs of the Cognitive Revolution, through the Agricultural Revolution, the emergence of empires, and into the high-tech wonders of our modern-day Sapiens, depicts a very stimulating story that people would add-to how humans have shaped the world and, secondly, by how the world has imprinted humans.
This is one such book that will not stop just at teaching history. This is going to dig deep into what being human is all about. For Harari, it's going to be a combination of biology, history, and philosophy to sew together the various threads by which he interjects insights from the few forces wherever he struck human development from those involving the creation of shared myths, the building of societies, and sufficiency against changes in circumstances.
The Alchemist is more of a story. It is a manual for life. It inspires readers to continue on when they do not know how. It contains lessons about hope, courage, and faith that will prompt readers to come again and again.
Key Features:
- Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Philosophy, Science, Anthropology, Sociology
- Language: Simple and engaging, appropriate for readers across the globe
- Pages: ~160
- Cognitive power: Understanding how human imaginations and storytelling through language allow one's species to flourish and outcompete all others.
- Agriculture and Society: Very important as how the Agricultural Revolution changed the lives of person and how that caused their social stratification, gutsier economies, and much more government.
- Science and Progress: How scientific discoveries have contributed to rewriting human experiences, imposing moral dilemmas on future settlements for mankind.
Why You Should Read It
Harari writes for the general reader; throws himself into talking and uses cheerfully common but interesting ideas that cause discomfort with accepted ideas; twists the ideas into bits of storytelling, then combines them with academic kind, make them so easy to understand.
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