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Humans

Paperback • 2019 • English • 1. edition

Humans: a brief history of how we f*cked it all up

By Tom Phillips

4 Ratings • 4.3 of 5

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About the book

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 e...Show more

General and world history

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ISBN

9781472259059

Publisher

Wildfire

Published year

2019

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Humans

Format

Paperback

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