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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,875 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,328,780 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,688 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,899 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,400 ratings — published 2018
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,501 ratings — published 2011
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,426 ratings — published 1996
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,087,673 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,315,062 ratings — published 1954
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,573 ratings — published 1988
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.07 — 135,941 ratings — published 2009
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,844 ratings — published 2021
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 51,931 ratings — published 1997
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,230 ratings — published 2012
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,315 ratings — published 2014
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 330,802 ratings — published 1961
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,145 ratings — published 1995
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,733 ratings — published 1935
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,422 ratings — published 2011
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,207 ratings — published 2006
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,283 ratings — published 2015
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,967 ratings — published 2019
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,298 ratings — published 2005
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,834 ratings — published 1975
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,315 ratings — published 2012
Weslandia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,127 ratings — published 1999
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,999 ratings — published 2010
The Evolution of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.40 — 325 ratings — published 1961
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,195 ratings — published 2017
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,626 ratings — published 1992
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 435,756 ratings — published 2003
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,295 ratings — published 2017
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,048 ratings — published 2018
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,349 ratings — published 1918
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,756 ratings — published 1968
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,645 ratings — published 2011
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,075 ratings — published 2010
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,153 ratings — published 2011
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,344,934 ratings — published 2011
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,237 ratings — published 1963
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,682 ratings — published 2000
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,540 ratings — published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,153,516 ratings — published 1932
The Renaissance (The Story of Civilization, #5)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,422 ratings — published 1953
The Reformation (The Story of Civilization #6)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,254 ratings — published 1957
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,457 ratings — published 2010
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,264 ratings — published 1860
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 363,989 ratings — published 1995
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,137 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,518 ratings — published 2004
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”
― Freedom from Fear
― Freedom from Fear
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
