Humans - A Brief History of How We F cked It All Up

@2@'In dark times, it's reassuring to learn that we've always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits' @20@Stuart Heritage, author of @18@Don't Be a Dick, Pete@19@@21@@3@@2@'Very funny' @20@Mark Watson@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day. @21@@3@@2@In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up.@3@@2@From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking @18@itself@19@ one drunken night, to the world's leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President... it's pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven't exactly grown wiser with age. @3@@2@@20@So, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...@21@@3@@2@@20@FURTHER PRAISE FOR @18@HUMANS@19@:@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining' @18@@20@Telegraph@21@@19@@3@

Product details

• Authors: Tom Phillips, Phillips Tom
• Publisher: Wildfire
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781472259059
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-5905-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, popular science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Humour, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Parodies & Spoofs, Parodies and spoofs: non-fiction, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)