In Sapiens: A Graphic History, Harari's ideas continue to help us understand global events and participate in our times' most important conversations – but now in vivid colour with Casanave's illustration magic.

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of

What if humanity’s major woes—war, plague, famine and inequality—originated 12,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens converted from nomads to settlers, in pursuit of the fantasy of productivity and efficiency? What if by seeking to control plants and animals, humans ended up being controlled by kings, priests, and Kafkaesque bureaucracy? Volume 2 of Sapiens: A Graphic History – The Pillars of Civilization explores a crucial chapter in human development: the Agricultural Revolution. This is the story of how wheat took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, plague, famine, and inequality became an intractable feature of the human condition. At the same time, seeing his theories visually makes them all the more concrete in your head, and you might tend to forget that all his theories are heavily reliant on his assumptions. Adult readers might be able to filter out the chaff from the wheat; youngsters might take his version as an accurate representation of the past. So the content is still relevant, but to be taken with a pinch of salt, just like in the original book. Sapiens] has been one of the most spectacular publishing successes of the past decade. Killian Fox, Observer Lively, engaging... Transforms humanity's complex evolutionary story into something accessible enough for anyone to enjoy. BBC History MagazineMakin paham apa yang dibahas, makin dapet humornya, makin nyesek di bab terakhir. Catatan kecil tentang isu ekologis di halaman-halaman terakhir rasanya kaya ditonjok di ulu hati. In 2020 Harari joined forces with renowned comics artists David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave, to create Sapiens: A Graphic History: a radical adaptation of the original Sapiens into a graphic novel series that is bursting with wit, humour and colour (to be launched fall 2020). This illustrated book casts Yuval Noah Harari in the role of guide, who takes the reader through the entire history of the human species, accompanied by a range of fictional characters and traveling through time, space and popular culture references. Mis más sinceras felicitaciones al equipo que está detrás de esta versión gráfica del libro de Harari, pues como lo dije en la reseña del primer volumen, me parece un reto muy grande e interesante el poder plasmar en el lenguaje gráfico un ensayo que cubre con mucho lujo de detalle la historia de nuestra especie. Ya espero con ansia el tercer volumen de la serie, pues según el adelanto del final del presente volumen, promete mucho. Harari is a gifted writer, and he is not afraid to traffic in the biggest of Big Ideas. He starts by reminding us that Homo sapiens, the last surviving species in the genus known as Homo, started out as unremarkable animals “with no more impact on their environment than baboons, fireflies or jellyfish.” Our unique gift among the other fauna, which emerged about 70,000 years ago, is our ability to imagine things that cannot be detected by the five senses, including God, religion, corporations, and currency, all of which he characterizes as fictions. He points out that we have risen to the top of the food chain only by exploiting and often exterminating other animals, but he predicts that humans, too, are not long for the world. All of these intriguing ideas – and many more — are explored in depth and with wit and acuity in “Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind.”

Sapiens: A Graphic Book Review: Prof. Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens: A Graphic

Tuschman, Avi (16 June 2016). "How humans became human". The Washington Post . Retrieved 16 June 2016. Interesting overview, with emphasis on the word "overview." I would have liked an even deeper dive into his source material & the messy weeds of history. He pushes a narrative/ argument, for sure: humans make up fictions as a means to achieve desired hierarchies. It has the feel of pop anthropology, leaving me to wonder how many actual scientists/social scientists are reading and agreeing with Harari's work. Couple of years before I read the real Sapiens book. But later on I forgot the events and important points mentioned in that book. When I heard about this graphic version, I was eagerly waiting to buy this one.One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?

Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1 : Harari, Yuval Noah Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1 : Harari, Yuval Noah

Saya juga sangat senang dengan pembawaan bab terakhir, "Pembunuh Berantai Antarbenua" yang mengambil tema "pengadilan", dan ditutup dengan pesan ekologis bahwa kita semua bersalah, dan masa depan keberlangsungan hewan dan tumbuhan ada di tangan kita semua. Saya kalau bisa standing ovation di depan penulisnya, saya akan lakukan itu. Dirk Lindebaum. Sapiens: A brief history of humankind (Book Review), Management Learning, 46 (5) 2015, pp.636–638. doi: 10.1177/1350507615602981 This was the second volume of graphic novels adapted from the excellent book by Mr. Harari. This is another adaptation that was different if you compare it to the book because obviously, the formats are different. So these books are targeted more towards probably the younger readers. But the ideas in the book were poignant and hard-hitting and so they are here. A few people had the issue that India wasn't mentioned much in the first volume well enjoy India is a major part of this volume but you won't be happy with it because it's obviously, discussing the problems. Many Americans would take issue with this book and this volume but history is history it's not a mystery. So till then Keep on Reading. It is beyond argument nowadays that the comic book can be enjoyed by adult readers, and some of them are literally so graphic that their intended readers are adults only. “Sapiens: A Graphic History,” however, is child-friendly. For example, when explaining the principle that animals from different species may mate but cannot produce fertile offspring, Harari shows us a horse and a donkey and comments that “they don’t seem to be that into each other.” While many of the illustrations and dialogue bubbles are quite frank, the book serves as a useful primer of history and science for readers of all ages. My dad gave my kids this book for Christmas and I ended up reading it myself. I had to get used to it being a comic at first and it is very interesting. I can't wait for the next 2 books. As then it will all probably make a lot of sense.

Professor Harari was born in Haifa, Israel, to Lebanese parents in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Michal Shavit, publishing director of imprint Jonathan Cape at Vintage, said: “Yuval Harari never ceases to amaze, inspire and entertain his readers and this new book in the Sapiens: A Graphic History series doesn’t disappoint. In this beautiful, illustrated edition, with its focus on the Agricultural Revolution, we are thrown into a world of technological innovation, societal upheaval and the unintended consequences that accompany such seismic change. A treasure for young and old alike.’ The latest manifestation of the “Sapiens” publishing enterprise is “ Sapiens: A Graphic History” (Harper Perennial), a series that tells much (if not all) of the same sweeping saga in comic-book format. The first volume in the series, co-written by David Vandermeulen and inventively illustrated by Daniel Casanave, is “The Birth of Mankind.”

Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind

Reviewing the book in The Washington Post, evolutionary anthropologist Avi Tuschman points out problems stemming from the contradiction between Harari's "freethinking scientific mind" and his "fuzzier worldview hobbled by political correctness", but nonetheless wrote that "Harari's book is important reading for serious-minded, self-reflective sapiens." [25]A] wonderful graphic novel... Smart, funny and dipped deep in the reality of what we as a species are... Crammed with the details that made the original so jaw-dropping and essential. Big Issue *Books of the Year* The "paradox of plenty": the way that the transition from nomadic to primary agricultural societies created a vicious cycle whereby humans had more children, so had to produce ever more food, requiring more workers and so on. There is nudity in the illustrations. Nothing vulgar. Just that in a couple of panels, the pubic area of human males and females is depicted. There are some panels with breasts shown.