Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

ISBN-13: 9781472259059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str.

Tom Phillips

Opis

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

Recenzje

This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic Jeremy Clarkson

O autorze

Tom Phillips is the former editor of Full Fact, Britain's leading independent fact-checking organisation. Previously he was the editorial director of BuzzFeed UK. Tom's first book, HUMANS: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up, was published in 2018, and has since been translated into more than 30 languages. Tom's second book, TRUTH: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t was published in 2019 and has been translated into more than 20 languages.