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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,219,512 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,627 ratings — published 1997
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,532 ratings — published 2008
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,562 ratings — published 2003
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 984 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,675 ratings — published 2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as big-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,119 ratings — published 2004
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,912 ratings — published 2021
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,305 ratings — published 2012
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,986 ratings — published 2017
A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as big-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 348 ratings — published
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,851 ratings — published 2010
Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as big-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 991 ratings — published 2007
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,004 ratings — published 2019
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as big-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,653 ratings — published 2002
Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity (Audio CD)
by (shelved 11 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 553 ratings — published
Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 74 ratings — published
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,439 ratings — published 2018
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,263 ratings — published 2011
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,357 ratings — published 2010
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,621 ratings — published 1980
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,739 ratings — published 2004
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,808 ratings — published 2015
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,417 ratings — published 1991
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 77,968 ratings — published 2014
Big History and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as big-history)
avg rating 3.62 — 128 ratings — published 1998
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,719 ratings — published 2011
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,663 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,671 ratings — published 1988
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as big-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,938 ratings — published 2012
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 261,531 ratings — published 1980
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 76,745 ratings — published 2019
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,111 ratings — published 2012
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,850 ratings — published 2014
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as big-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,440 ratings — published 2010
Big History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 112 ratings — published
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,071 ratings — published 2020
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by (shelved 6 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 455 ratings — published
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 882 ratings — published 2005
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,924 ratings — published 2018
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,029 ratings — published 2011
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,732 ratings — published 1859
The World: A Family History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,443 ratings — published 2022
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,947 ratings — published 2017
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,332 ratings — published 2008
The New Penguin History of The World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,499 ratings — published 1976
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,281 ratings — published 1987
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,008 ratings — published 2018
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as big-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,756 ratings — published 2005
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,063 ratings — published 2014
“If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of future generations; enough to end disease, poverty and injustice forever; enough to create heights of flourishing unimaginable today. And if we could learn to reach out further into the cosmos, we could have more time yet: trillions of years, to explore billions of worlds. Such a lifespan places humanity in its earliest infancy. A vast and extraordinary adulthood awaits.”
― The Precipice
― The Precipice
“The economy of early hominids and that of twenty-first century society have enormous differences, but they do share one important feature: in both of these economies, humans accumulate information in objects. Our world is different from that of early hominids only in the way in which atoms are arranged.”
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