Civilizations


Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Story of Civilization
What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Medieval Civilization 400-1500
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
A History of Civilizations
A History of Japan
A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Atlantis: And Other Lost Worlds
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry NivenThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Best Aliens
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Graham Hancock
We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is naturally what we expect to find on archaeological sites. It upsets our carefully structured ideas of how civilizations should behave, how they should mature and develop, when we are confronted by a case like Göbekli Tepe that starts out perfect at the beginning and then slowly devolves until it is just a pale shadow of its former self.
Graham Hancock, Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

Jozef Simkovic
Gravity and time are local, and they are maintaining the balance in the bubbles. However, anomalies in the local gravity fields and times can destroy complete planetary systems and civilizations.
Jozef Simkovic, How to Kiss the Universe: An Inspirational Spiritual and Metaphysical Narrative about Human Origin, Essence and Destiny

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