Civilizations


Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Story of Civilization
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Medieval Civilization 400-1500
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
A History of Civilizations
A History of Japan
A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Atlantis: And Other Lost Worlds
What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry NivenThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
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Ray Bradbury
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer? ...more
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

David  Mitchell
Art is memory made public. Time wins in the long run. Books turn to dust, negatives decay, records get worn out, civilizations burn. But as long as the art endures, a song or a view or a thought or a feeling someone once thought worth keeping is saved and stays shareable. Others can say, “I feel that too.
David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

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Through Time Do you love a specific era, civilization, or decade? Do you love the fashion, mannerisms and pas…more
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