Humans : a brief history of how we f**ked it all up
By: Phillips, Tom
Publisher: London : Wildfire, c2018.Description: 258 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781472259028 Subject(s): History -- Errors, inventions, etc | World history -- Humor | Heads of state -- Anecdotes | Disasters -- HistoryDDC classification: 904.7 PH HUItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 904.7 PH HU (Browse shelf) | Available | June2019 | T0062407 |
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902 ON ET 1001 days that shaped the world | 903 BR NO The no-nonsense guide to world history / | 903 BR NO The no-nonsense guide to world history / | 904.7 PH HU Humans : | 907.1 PA LG Palgrave handbook of research in historical culture and education / | 907.2 BO FI Finding history : research methods and resources for students and scholars / | 907.2 CA UN The undivided past : humanity beyond our differences / |
An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day, 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, indeed, 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 f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse.