Civilization


Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Civilization: The West and the Rest
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
The Road
Lord of the Flies
The Collapse of Complex Societies
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Code Book by Simon SinghWomen in Mycenaean Greece by Barbara A. OlsenMysteries of the Snake Goddess by Kenneth LapatinRiddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxThe Minoan world by Arthur Cotterell
Crete, Minoans - Non-fiction
37 books — 7 voters
Enlightenment Now by Steven PinkerThe Moral Arc by Michael ShermerThe Birth of Plenty  by William J. BernsteinThe Rational Optimist by Matt RidleyThe Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Polemics for Progress
14 books — 6 voters

Woman and Nature by Susan GriffinWomen Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola EstésThe Death of Nature by Carolyn MerchantThe Green Reaper by Elizabeth FournierGyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
Ecofeminist nonfiction
35 books — 15 voters
GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  NelsonLucky by Scott NelsonThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareThe Dawn of Evil by L.E.  Parker
Culture Shock
44 books — 7 voters


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
Rousseau

Jerry Spinelli
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We are un ...more
Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

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