Jan. 14—Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" is one of those books that either reveals something new in almost every sentence or confirms something you thought you might know.

Consider the phenomenon known as “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” First written in Hebrew and self-published in Israel in 2011, the book by Yuval Noah Harari found an American publisher in ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s 12th pick for his Year of Books is Yuval Noah Harari’s catalogue of the rise of humankind, Sapiens. Humans are petty, selfish, brutal, and ambitious; we’re generous, foolish, ...

“Homo sapiens rules the world because it is the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in its own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights.” It is with this idea ...

Yuval Noah Harari wrote the book as a textbook for his history students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (JTA) — “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” the best-selling book by Israeli historian ...

In 2008, Yuval Noah Harari, a young historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, began to write a book derived from an undergraduate world-history class that he was teaching. Twenty lectures ...