Since then, however, its success has been swift and resounding: it became a bestseller in Israel and has gone on to be published in 20 countries around the world.
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The book was based on an introductory course on world history he taught when none of his more senior colleagues wanted to take it on, and it was turned down by almost every major publishing outfit in Israel before finding a receptive editor. Academic superstardom seems to have caught him by surprise as much as anyone. Its scope is so hugely ambitious that I had expected Harari to be one of those overconfident telly historian types, all male ego and a crushing sense of certainty, whereas, in the flesh, he’s a slightly nerdy, more thoughtful figure. That’s a workable description of what Sapiens is, though it’s a history book only in the sense that Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is a physics book ( Sapiens’ subtitle – A Brief History of Humankind – suggests that this is not entirely coincidental). He’s invited his 38 million followers to read what he describes as “a big history narrative of human civilisation– from how we developed from hunter-gatherers to how we organise our society and economy today”. And last month, he received the ultimate imprimatur when Sapiens was selected by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, for his online book club. Earlier this month, he delivered a TED talk. When I meet him, he’s just been the star turn at Penguin Random House’s global sales conference. Or that he’d join the globetrotting TED-ocracy: the academic superstars who travel the world delivering keynotes on zeitgeisty topics, in Harari’s case, the not inconsiderable subject of the history of the whole of mankind. He’s a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and there is almost nothing in his background to suggest that he would write a book that has become one of the most talked about non-fiction bestsellers of the year – Sapiens. The event is presented by vhs.wissen live, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and SIAF.B y rights, Yuval Noah Harari should be an anonymous academic buried in an obscure university department somewhere toiling away on his somewhat dusty discipline – medieval military history. The Rise” will be published by C.H.Beck in October 2020. Yuval Noah Harari’s graphic novel “Sapiens.
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His world science bestsellers “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” and “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” have been translated into more than 40 languages. He is a historian and a professor at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focussing on world history. Yuval Noah Harari is going to answer these questions for you. How did we, Homo Sapiens, manage to prevail in the battle of survival of the six human species? Why did our ancestors, who had been hunters and gatherers, settle down and establish towns and kingdoms? Why did we start to believe in gods, nations, and human rights? Why do we trust in money, books, laws and submit to bureaucracy, schedules and consumption? And has this, in the course of millennia, made us happier? Sapiens: The Birth of Humankind – A conversation with Yuval Noah Harari