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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,736 ratings — published 1997
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,055 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,339,819 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,385 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,226 ratings — published 2018
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,544 ratings — published 2011
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,483 ratings — published 1996
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,097,955 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,334,530 ratings — published 1954
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,594 ratings — published 1988
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.07 — 136,480 ratings — published 2009
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,384 ratings — published 2021
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 52,288 ratings — published 1997
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,664 ratings — published 2014
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,761 ratings — published 1935
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,993 ratings — published 2012
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 331,587 ratings — published 1961
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,692 ratings — published 1995
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,207 ratings — published 2006
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,026 ratings — published 2019
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,639 ratings — published 2011
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 99,360 ratings — published 2005
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,839 ratings — published 1975
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,971 ratings — published 2015
Weslandia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,136 ratings — published 1999
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,067 ratings — published 2010
The Evolution of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.41 — 326 ratings — published 1961
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,260 ratings — published 2017
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,354 ratings — published 2012
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,098 ratings — published 2010
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,992 ratings — published 1992
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,330 ratings — published 2017
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,132 ratings — published 2018
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,373 ratings — published 1918
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,352,303 ratings — published 2011
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,243 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 — 4,684 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 — 47,680 ratings — published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,166,656 ratings — published 1932
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,214 ratings — published 2003
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,014 ratings — published 1968
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,708 ratings — published 2011
The Renaissance (The Story of Civilization, #5)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,431 ratings — published 1953
The Reformation (The Story of Civilization #6)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,264 ratings — published 1957
Technics and Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 658 ratings — published 1934
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,304 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,274 ratings — published 1860
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,164 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,530 ratings — published 2004
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,673 ratings — published 2024
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
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[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
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