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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,659 ratings — published 1997
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 179,960 ratings — published 1304
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 538,289 ratings — published -750
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,289,207 ratings — published -800
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.25 — 180,309 ratings — published 2017
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 598,911 ratings — published -500
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,208 ratings — published 2006
厌女：日本的女性嫌恶 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.40 — 936 ratings — published 2010
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,710 ratings — published 1937
无法扼杀的愉悦:文学与美学漫笔 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
谁都不正常：文化、偏见与精神疾病的污名（抑郁症不过就是心着凉了而已） (Chinese Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
沉默的大多数 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.48 — 903 ratings — published 1997
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人生的盛宴 [Ren sheng de sheng yan] (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1987
The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 258 ratings — published 2017
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,176 ratings — published 2016
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,413 ratings — published 2003
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,269 ratings — published 2021
Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.95 — 249 ratings — published 2021
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,434 ratings — published 2018
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,502 ratings — published 1978
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,784 ratings — published 2004
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,972 ratings — published 1993
“Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.”
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“In any war, except that for freedom from oppression, victory of any nation, is the defeat of all nations, because each war comes at the cost of lives, in the name of the same old tribal loyalty.”
― Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
― Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty