Sapiens is a nonfiction history book by the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari. It is an attempt to summarise the entire history of humanity. Humans or homo Sapiens appeared on the earth present form around 1 lakh years ago but today we are the most powerful species on the planet. Harare attempt to explain how this species which is still very young(remember that many species have existed for much longer than that) managed to achieve so much

  Harari says that we have managed to do this because he can corporate with each other flexibly in large numbers. And are the only species on the on the planet who can do so. He says that we can do so because we believe in fictitious entities which exist not in reality but only in our collective imagination. These include Gods Nations money and corporations.

   Sapiens explains the history of Empires, capitalism money and how human civilization and systems came to be the way they  are. There is an interesting paragraph where he says that only 500 years ago when European discovered America, human civilization was far different from what it is today in terms of the total population, level of Technology and energy consumption. Yet we hardly ever think about it although 500 years is a very short time if we consider recorded history

   Harari also talks philosophy all his books and he says that he practices Vipassana meditation regularly.vipassana Meditation by the way was restarted by S N Goenka, ab Burmese in India

   Sapiens received  praise from some famous names like Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama and Bill Gates and so has become a highly Gates book. In fact former US President Barak Obama said in one interview reading this book give him a sense of perspective” the people of ancient civilizations may have had their economic upheavals political scandal but nothing much remains of their cities this teaches us not to sweat the small stuff because in the future nothing may remain of our present civilization”