--- product_id: 64677437 title: "Sapiens: THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER" brand: "yuval noah harari" price: "NT$978" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/64677437-sapiens-the-multi-million-copy-bestseller store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # 4.7/5 from 126K+ reviews #1 in Biology & History categories 2M+ copies sold worldwide Sapiens: THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER **Brand:** yuval noah harari **Price:** NT$978 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌍 Unlock the secrets of humanity’s epic saga — don’t just read history, live it! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Sapiens: THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER by yuval noah harari - **How much does it cost?** NT$978 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/64677437-sapiens-the-multi-million-copy-bestseller) ## Best For - yuval noah harari enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted yuval noah harari brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Four Revolutionary Eras:** Dive into Cognitive, Agricultural, Unification & Scientific revolutions that shaped us. - • **Global Bestseller Status:** Join millions who’ve transformed their worldview with this iconic read. - • **Unrivaled Intellectual Depth:** Explore humanity’s journey from ancient apes to modern rulers with groundbreaking insights. - • **Critically Acclaimed & Endorsed:** Praised by Barack Obama, Bill Gates & The Guardian’s top 100 books of the 21st century. - • **Thought-Provoking & Mind-Altering:** Challenge everything you know about culture, society, and the future of humankind. ## Overview Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is a multi-million copy bestseller and a #1 ranked book in Biology and History categories. It offers a sweeping, provocative exploration of human history through four major revolutions—Cognitive, Agricultural, Unification, and Scientific. Endorsed by global thought leaders and boasting a 4.7-star rating from over 126,000 readers, this book challenges conventional wisdom and rewires your understanding of what it means to be human. ## Description 'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens ? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us. In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going. **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN' S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** PRAISE FOR SAPIENS : 'Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last... It may be the best book I've ever read' Chris Evans 'Startling... It changes the way you look at the world' Simon Mayo 'I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who's interested in the history and future of our species' Bill Gates Over 2 million copies sold since publication [Nielsen BookScan UK, Circana BookScan US, April 2024] ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Country Of Origin | United Kingdom | | Dimensions | 12.9 x 3.7 x 19.8 cm | | Edition | Paperback | | Generic Name | Book | | Importer | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd | | Isbn 10 | 0099590085 | | Isbn 13 | 978-0099590088 | | Item Weight | 443 g | | Language | English | | Net Quantity | 1.0 Count | | Packer | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd | | Part Of Series | A Brief History Series | | Print Length | 512 pages | | Publication Date | 30 April 2015 | | Publisher | Penguin Random House | | Reading Age | Customer suggested age: 16 years and up | ## Images ![Sapiens: THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/713jIoMO3UL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thoroughly Enlightening !!! *by on Reviewed in India 28 March 2016* BookReviewsFromHeart @ BloggerIt's quite rarely when you came across a person or a book which just amazes you and a part of it just housed into your mind and brain. By the way , What do know about Humans(us) ? I was taught,like many others, in school that Homo Sapiens is the scientific name for Humans. Homo Sapiens -the species Sapiens(Wise ) of the genus (Homo) and is the only living human species on earth but none of them debriefed us anything about the conditions in which we actually arose . Were there exist only Homo Sapiens or there exist other human species too ? 100,000 years ago,at least, six human species inhabited the earth. Today, there's just one. Us.And What injected in the minds of kids at a very young age , including me, is that it's the climate which causes the extinction of many animal species . But is it a complete truth ? Few tried to find . Honestly, I didn't but this book answered so many answers to the questions which were not even budded in our brain .Magnum Opus this book is a wide-ranging and bold work of non-fiction which challenges everything we thought we knew about being human from our thoughts to our actions and even our future . Sapiens tabled the answers of intricate questions raised from curiosity while studying the history of our own species. Book is divided into four major parts- The Cognitive Revolution, The Agriculture Revolution, The Unification of Humankind & The Scientific Revolution . Every Part is further divided into subparts & gives ample description on the mentioned topics. In the first section, The Cognitive Revolution , Author talks about the existence of other human species that exist before Homo Sapiens and how Homo Sapiens turned out to be the environment serial killer which had annihilated many species including his own siblings and many other animals.This section also reveals the way of living of our ancestors and the little myths they create to bind the humankind.Next comes , The Agriculture Revolution, which explains that how our ancestors who were foragers and had the only aim to hunt and live renounced their practice of living a nomadic life and settled to sow and grow . How this decision of settling at a place for farming turned out to be the most decisive moment in the history of humankind which changed the aberrated the history and most importantly how Agriculture turned out to be the biggest fraud of history . our ancestors who usually stay in a band of 15-20 eventually start living in a group of 100s when the agriculture flourished ,And after the agricultural revolution, human societies grew ever larger and more complex .Myths and fictions accustomed people, nearly from the moment of their birth, to think in a certain way and to observe certain rules. They thereby created artificial instincts that enabled millions to strangers to cooperate effectively and this network of artificial instincts is called 'Culture'. The Unification of Humankind holds the contents which were put into action many years ago to unite the mankind either with the help of 'Culture' or 'Religion' or 'Nations'. This section also enlightens about the crucial role played by different religions sprouted in the different part of the world to add more and more strangers in a community. Harari in this section depicts how Mythology helped in maintaining law & order while money gave us something we can really trust.And the last section , The Scientific Revolution, which stretched for about 2nd half of the book gave us a clear glimpse of the beginning of the scientific revolution which introduced humans to their actual capabilities of being the wisest species on earth. Samen which lands us on the moon to manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.So Sapiens is a must read , thrilling and breathtaking account of our extraordinary history - from insignificant apes to the rulers of the world.It's quite rarely when you came across a person or a book which just amazes you and a part of it just housed into your mind and brain. By the way , What do know about Humans(us) ? I was taught,like many others, in school that Homo Sapiens is the scientific name for Humans. Homo Sapiens -the species Sapiens(Wise ) of the genus (Homo) and is the only living human species on earth but none of them debriefed us anything about the conditions in which we actually arose . Were there exist only Homo Sapiens or there exist other human species too ? 100,000 years ago,at least, six human species inhabited the earth. Today, there's just one. Us.And What injected in the minds of kids at a very young age , including me, is that it's the climate which causes the extinction of many animal species . But is it a complete truth ? Few tried to find . Honestly, I didn't but this book answered so many answers to the questions which were not even budded in our brain .Magnum Opus this book is a wide-ranging and bold work of non-fiction which challenges everything we thought we knew about being human from our thoughts to our actions and even our future . Sapiens tabled the answers of intricate questions raised from curiosity while studying the history of our own species. Book is divided into four major parts- The Cognitive Revolution, The Agriculture Revolution, The Unification of Humankind & The Scientific Revolution . Every Part is further divided into subparts & gives ample description on the mentioned topics. In the first section, The Cognitive Revolution , Author talks about the existence of other human species that exist before Homo Sapiens and how Homo Sapiens turned out to be the environment serial killer which had annihilated many species including his own siblings and many other animals.This section also reveals the way of living of our ancestors and the little myths they create to bind the humankind.Next comes , The Agriculture Revolution, which explains that how our ancestors who were foragers and had the only aim to hunt and live renounced their practice of living a nomadic life and settled to sow and grow . How this decision of settling at a place for farming turned out to be the most decisive moment in the history of humankind which changed the aberrated the history and most importantly how Agriculture turned out to be the biggest fraud of history . our ancestors who usually stay in a band of 15-20 eventually start living in a group of 100s when the agriculture flourished ,And after the agricultural revolution, human societies grew ever larger and more complex .Myths and fictions accustomed people, nearly from the moment of their birth, to think in a certain way and to observe certain rules. They thereby created artificial instincts that enabled millions to strangers to cooperate effectively and this network of artificial instincts is called 'Culture'. The Unification of Humankind holds the contents which were put into action many years ago to unite the mankind either with the help of 'Culture' or 'Religion' or 'Nations'. This section also enlightens about the crucial role played by different religions sprouted in the different part of the world to add more and more strangers in a community. Harari in this section depicts how Mythology helped in maintaining law & order while money gave us something we can really trust.And the last section , The Scientific Revolution, which stretched for about 2nd half of the book gave us a clear glimpse of the beginning of the scientific revolution which introduced humans to their actual capabilities of being the wisest species on earth. Samen which lands us on the moon to manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.So Sapiens is a must read , thrilling and breathtaking account of our extraordinary history - from insignificant apes to the rulers of the world. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Sweeping, Thought-Provoking Journey Through Human History *by on Reviewed in India 4 October 2025* Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens is one of those rare books that changes the way you see the world. It’s not just history — it’s a mirror that reflects who we are, why we live the way we do, and what it might mean to be human. What struck me most was Harari’s ability to strip away the familiar and reveal the strangeness of our everyday beliefs, values, and habits.Harari brilliantly distinguishes between natural orders and imagined orders. Natural laws, like gravity, exist whether or not you believe in them. But ideas like equality, freedom, or money are imagined — they only work if we all collectively believe in them. His example of money as a psychological construct — a system that “converts matter into mind” — was especially powerful. It forces you to see that much of civilization runs on shared stories rather than physical truths.The book also satirizes our modern consumer lives. On page 129 (Hardcover), Harari points out that vacations are a form of romantic consumerism — in ancient Egypt, no man would think of fixing a relationship by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might build her a lavish tomb. Today’s pyramids aren’t stone monuments but suburban homes with lawns or glittering penthouses. We rarely question why we desire them, only that we do.Equally fascinating is his take on knowledge and exploration. Harari contrasts medieval certainty with the modern embrace of ignorance. Columbus thought he already knew the world, even when he stumbled on a new continent. The real breakthrough came with Amerigo Vespucci, who had the humility to admit, “We don’t know.” That simple admission of ignorance was the true dawn of modernity. Harari sees poetic justice in the fact that two continents bear Vespucci’s name, honoring not conquest but curiosity.The book also dives into faith, science, and morality with unforgettable examples. Biblical lines like “the poor you will always have with you” and “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” highlight timeless tensions in wealth and ethics. Meanwhile, Harari draws on Harlow’s famous monkey experiments to show how emotional bonds outweigh mere survival needs — even in animals.Toward the end, Harari asks the deepest questions: what is happiness? He rejects the idea that it’s simply a balance of pleasure over pain. Instead, happiness is about seeing life as meaningful. Our values shape whether we see ourselves as “slaves to a baby dictator” or as parents nurturing a new life. He draws on Nietzsche’s insight — “if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how” — and Buddhism’s warning that suffering comes not from pain itself, but from the restless craving to prolong pleasure and avoid loss. Harari suggests that happiness may simply be synchronizing our personal illusions of meaning with the collective ones around us.Sapiens is extraordinary because it doesn’t just tell you history — it rewires your sense of history, meaning, and self. From pyramids to consumerism, from empires to money, from happiness to suffering, Harari invites us to question everything we take for granted. This is not just a book; it is a lens through which life itself looks different. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is a must read to generate inquisitiveness within *by on Reviewed in India 1 July 2019* The book has a very catchy start with a brief talk about “the Big Bang”. After shortly explaining the physics and chemistry of life coming into existence on planet earth, it narrows down towards the single topic – Sapiens. Thereafter, all the chapters and topics talk about Homo Sapiens.This book is a journey about Homo-Sapiens becoming the most dominant and to-be-scared-from species on Earth.Harari has penned down all his knowledge on this area in a way which I would like to call – smartly subtle, where he has left the readers to think. My personal favourite is the chapter on Agricultural Revolution, explaining how humankind became slave to their food (wheat) – you will feel a sense of tension mixed with humour while reading it!Apart from this, there are some areas on which readers’ views might differ totally. My personal view is different about whenever the book talks about Aryan Invasion. As per my view, Aryan Invasion is a cooked-up story and the book seems to be supporting it.The most questioning area for me: As discussed with some of my professors, the Mahabharata war happened some 5000 years ago, of which this book has no mention at all. This leaves my mind in a highly puzzled state – when did Mahabharata war actually happen? Did it happen or not? If it did, how can such a massive event go unnoticed by the writer? How does this fit in together? This doesn’t make sense at all!! Is there a parallel universe where Mahabharata happened, which has its own history? Wallah!! This is where the book has increased my inquisitiveness manifold.Coming to the most calming topic the book talks about: Chemical Happiness. Harari has brilliantly explained how Biologists understand happiness, which is nothing but the level of three hormones in our body – serotonin, oxytocin and dopamine!! This biological logic behind happiness takes away the earnestness from so-called wise words and quotes - “motivation”, “feel good”, “be happy”, “live life to the fullest”. Logical happiness has become my new cool these days!In a nutshell, I loved the way Harari has compiled the facts from around the world and bonded them in this book. He has not put up his opinion anywhere, rather, he has just told us what he knows, leaving us open to think and to accept or not accept.I would say, this book is a must read to generate inquisitiveness within and to go crazy SAPIENS!- One of the Sapiens on Planet Earth! ## Frequently Bought Together - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - The Laws of Human Nature --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/64677437-sapiens-the-multi-million-copy-bestseller](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/64677437-sapiens-the-multi-million-copy-bestseller) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-10-15*