Humans

• Autor: Tom Phillips
• Wydawnictwo: Headline
• Rok wydania: 2019
• Język: angielski
• Oprawa: miękka
• Liczba stron: 306
• Format: 13.0 x 20.0 cm
• Numer ISBN: 9781472259059
• Kod paskowy (EAN): 9781472259059

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.