Name: Humans
Price: 528.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Tom Phillips
ISBN: 9781472259059

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tom Phillips

Publisher

Headline Group

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781472259059

Humans

Tom Phillips (Author) · Headline Group · Paperback

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Synopsis "Humans "

'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight'Very funny' Mark WatsonAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORYIn 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.From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself 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.So, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...FURTHER PRAISE FOR HUMANS:'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining' The Telegraph'Chronicles humanity's myriad follies down the ages with malicious glee and much wit ... a rib-tickling page-turner' Business Standard'A timely, irreverent gallop through thousands of years of human stupidity' Nicholas Griffin, Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World

Tom Phillips

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He is a journalist and editor at Full Fact, the leading fact-checking company in the UK. Previously, he was the editorial director at BuzzFeed UK, where he perfectly balanced his time between reporting on very important issues… and making jokes. He studied History and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

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