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The Royal Society of Biologists in the UK shortlisted the book in its 2015 Book Awards. [16] Bill Gates ranked Sapiens among his ten favorite books, [17] and Mark Zuckerberg also recommended it. [18] Kirkus Reviews awarded a star to the book, noting that it is "the great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor". [19]
A wise person does actions that are unpleasant to do but give good results, and does not do actions that are pleasant to do but give bad results. [68] Wisdom is the antidote to the poison of ignorance. The Buddha has much to say on the subject of wisdom including: He who arbitrates a case by force does not thereby become just (established in ...
The Court of Sapience, book 1; Piers Plowman (later fourteenth century), where they appear just after Christ's death (passus 18 in the B-text, passus 21 in the C-text). This seems to be based on Grosseteste's text. [6] Nicholas Love's The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (translated from the Meditations on the Life of Christ)
Wisdom literature is a genre of literature common in the ancient Near East. It consists of statements by sages and the wise that offer teachings about divinity and virtue . Although this genre uses techniques of traditional oral storytelling , it was disseminated in written form.
Literary fiction is often used as a synonym for literature, in the exclusive sense of writings specifically considered to have considerable artistic merit. [6] Literary fiction is commonly regarded as artistically superior to genre fiction, the latter being a form of commercial fiction written to provide entertainment to a mass audience. [7] [8 ...
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a 2015 young adult novel [1] and the debut book by American author Becky Albertalli. [2] The coming-of-age story focuses on its titular protagonist Simon Spier, a closeted, gay, high school-aged boy who is forced to come out after a blackmailer discovers Simon's emails written to another closeted classmate with whom he has fallen in love.
Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that were recorded on a variety of media, including stone, clay tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal.
Still, literature has been present before the invention of words and language, with 30,000-year-old paintings on walls inside some caves portraying a series of dramatic scenes. [380] One of the oldest surviving works of literature is the Epic of Gilgamesh, first engraved on ancient Babylonian tablets about 4,000 years ago. [381]