Kategorie: Antropologia , Socjologia. Społeczeństwo , Wydawnictwa naukowe i popularno-naukowe

Isbn: 9781472259059

Ean: 9781472259059

Liczba stron: 306

Format: 13.0x20.0cm

In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we?ve come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade ? on the evolutionary food chain, we?re real winners. But, frankly, it?s not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes ? just occasionally ? we?ve managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up. From Chairman Mao?s Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the world?s leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President? it?s pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven?t exactly grown wiser with age. So, next time you think you?ve really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse? FURTHER PRAISE FOR HUMANS: ?A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong? Both readable and entertaining? The Telegraph ?Chronicles humanity?s myriad follies down the ages with malicious glee and much wit ? a rib-tickling page-turner? Business Standard ?A timely, irreverent gallop through thousands of years of human stupidity? Nicholas Griffin, Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World

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