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.

Sapiens graphic novel, Daniel Casanave illustrates In the Sapiens graphic novel, Daniel Casanave illustrates

The Unification of Humankind (c. 34 CE, the gradual consolidation of human political organizations towards globalization).In 2020 the first volume of the graphic novel version of the book was published simultaneously in several languages, with the title Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind. It is credited as coauthored by Harari and David Vandermeulen, with adaptation and illustrations by Daniel Casanave. The second volume Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization was published in October 2021. Saya sangat menyarankan pembaca untuk bersikap dan berpikiran terbuka, dan secara menyeluruh (dan detail) menikmati proses pembacaan ini dengan sungguh-sungguh.

Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1 - Penguin Books Australia Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1 - Penguin Books Australia

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. 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.I think many of us are familiar with the best selling nonfiction title, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by the same author, and this is its graphic novel counterpart. I have not read the former and really enjoyed my time with the latter. The illustrations are detailed, beautifully colored, informative, and add to the experience. Anthropology was one of my majors in undergrad, and I loved revisiting those topics and also the newer research that’s been discovered/uncovered since I last studied. I think the graphic novel is a great crossover for both adults and younger readers in learning about a most fascinating topic. It is not an easy job to take a nonfiction tome such as Sapiens and adapt it to a graphic version. So I must appreciate the efforts of the author, the storyboard artists, illustrators and editors who would have worked on this graphic version. They have done a fabulous job. 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.’

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Casanave | Waterstones Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Casanave | Waterstones

The best-selling book by Yuval Noah Harari has been beautifully adapted into a graphic novel just in time for Christmas. The story of humankind is told through the delicate illustrations, bringing science and history together to help us understand how Homo sapiens came to inhabit the Earth. Amy Barrett, BBC Science Focus Magazine You can see in it almost as much historical and scientific information as in other sections, but it is how the story unfolds that really grabs you. You forget you are consuming scientific facts. It brings together two of the most important things in this book: succeeding in making Yuval's words more attractive and accessible to those who might not have engaged with them before now, and explaining lots of scientific and historical concepts while creating exciting stories and situations for the reader." 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.

Sapiens: A Graphic History is an epic, radical adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book into a graphic novel series; bursting with wit, humor, pop culture references and colourful illustrations. Harari (as co-writer) has teamed up with renowned comics artists, David Vandermeulen (co-writer) and Daniel Casanave (illustrator), to retell the story of humankind in a way that will captivate all adults and young adults – including those who don’t usually read science and history books. David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave's adaptation of the original text ( Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind) into an illustrated graphic novel format makes the subject matter accessible to a wider audience, in particular middle-grade and high-school aged students. I felt that this was mostly successful, although as an adult reader, I occasionally found the content a little contrived. I should add that I haven't read widely within the graphic fiction format, so am perhaps not the best judge.

Sapiens: A Graphic History - Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Harari interviewed by Alan Philps about his book, The World Today, September 2015, Volume 71, Number 5. Mann, Charles C. (6 February 2015). "How Humankind Conquered the World". Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 15 June 2016. I definitely was not a fan of the artwork, although that might be polished up by the time this thing actually hits the shelves. In what is described as the first "graphic history" of humankind, Sapiens has been reimagined in a graphic novel in collaboration with comics artists David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave.

Buku ini sangat cocok untuk pembaca yang tidak terbiasa membaca buku non fiksi, atau genre sejarah. Saya dari dulu anti dengan mata pelajaran sejarah, namun buku ini berhasil membuat saya menikmati proses saya memahami sejarah kelahiran umat manusia. Bravo untuk penulis, ilustrator, penerjemah, penyunting, dan segenap tim yang berhasil mendatangkan buku ini di tangan saya (termasuk juga pacar saya, yang bukunya ini saya pinjam)! Preston, Alex (July 29, 2018). "How the 'brainy' book became a publishing phenomenon". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 31, 2018. The Cognitive Revolution (c. 70,000 BCE, the start of behavioral modernity when imagination evolved in Sapiens). The book is still thought-provoking, but some of the thoughts I had didn't improve my opinion. I found the use of the Egyptian pyramids as an example of "cooperation" off-putting. Technically I suppose it is, but ... I also got tired of reading references to the Cognitive Revolution when I didn't feel we had been provided with a satisfying explanation of what exactly it was, so I googled it. I feel the book presents this theory as generally, if not universally, accepted, but I found that other models have been offered, and according to Wikipedia, some of the proponents of some other theories have suggested the Cognitive Revolution theory reflects Eurocentric bias ( Behavior Modernity Wikipedia article) One of the characters talks of people sleeping around, adultery, and gossip about crushes in front of Harari's young niece in a couple of the story panels.