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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,542 ratings — published 2004
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,594 ratings — published 1997
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,365 ratings — published 1996
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,216 ratings — published 2024
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,318,721 ratings — published 2011
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,833 ratings — published 1975
What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.64 — 180 ratings — published 2010
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,863 ratings — published 1995
Medieval Civilization 400-1500 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,222 ratings — published 1964
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,560 ratings — published 1968
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.90 — 387 ratings — published 2000
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,235 ratings — published 1963
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.13 — 10,478 ratings — published 2020
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,771 ratings — published 2015
A History of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,755 ratings — published 1972
A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.79 — 107 ratings — published 1994
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,940 ratings — published 2021
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,984 ratings — published 2014
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,377 ratings — published 2022
Atlantis: And Other Lost Worlds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.59 — 229 ratings — published 2000
Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.74 — 192 ratings — published 2000
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,076 ratings — published 2010
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,480 ratings — published 2011
Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.87 — 208 ratings — published 1989
The Mars Mystery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,042 ratings — published 1997
The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,258 ratings — published 1995
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,580 ratings — published 2009
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,958 ratings — published 2010
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,165 ratings — published 1978
Waterless Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,503 ratings — published 1931
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.17 — 971 ratings — published 2005
Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 1996
Ancient Civilizations: The Illustrated Guide to Belief, Mythology And Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.85 — 54 ratings — published 2005
The Life and Death of St. Kilda (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.09 — 520 ratings — published 1975
What Life was Like in the Land of the Dragon: Imperial China Ad 960-1368 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.04 — 71 ratings — published 1998
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,040 ratings — published 2007
Daily Life in Holland in the Year 1566 And the Story of My Ancestor's Treasure Chest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.54 — 81 ratings — published 1992
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.95 — 824 ratings — published 2007
The Indian in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.10 — 124 ratings — published 1975
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.88 — 357 ratings — published 1993
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,374 ratings — published 1949
The Civilizing Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,028 ratings — published 1939
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,675 ratings — published 2000
The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.08 — 108 ratings — published 2000
The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.79 — 272 ratings — published 1998
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,007 ratings — published 1971
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.73 — 214 ratings — published 1969
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,154 ratings — published 2007
Dr. Johnson's London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 4.04 — 797 ratings — published 2000
China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as civilizations)
avg rating 3.81 — 276 ratings — published 2008
“He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.”
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“The common man is in the majority, so the common man holds the most power, but unfortunately they give their power away to the few who tell them to do so. If a certain threshold of people believed in their hearts that a transition to a moneyless civilization would be best, it would manifest itself in the physical world.”
― The Beasts of Success
― The Beasts of Success
