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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 — 470,605 ratings — published 1997
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,206 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 — 925 ratings — published 2010
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,406 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 — 901 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 — 255 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 3.97 — 1,171 ratings — published 2016
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,798 ratings — published 2003
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,257 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 — 12,384 ratings — published 2018
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,167 ratings — published 1978
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,542 ratings — published 2004
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,941 ratings — published 1993
“In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.”
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“Civilization is clearly not crucial to human life, as we have mostly been living without it for over a million years now – a few of us even happily at times.”
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