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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 471,812 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,324,069 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,597 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,331 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,998 ratings — published 2018
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,490 ratings — published 2011
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,395 ratings — published 1996
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,084,305 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,307,574 ratings — published 1954
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,564 ratings — published 1988
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.07 — 135,731 ratings — published 2009
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,659 ratings — published 2021
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 51,840 ratings — published 1997
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,130 ratings — published 2014
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,932 ratings — published 2012
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 330,518 ratings — published 1961
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,942 ratings — published 1995
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,208 ratings — published 2006
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,720 ratings — published 1935
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,941 ratings — published 2019
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,320 ratings — published 2011
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,089 ratings — published 2005
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,831 ratings — published 1975
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,043 ratings — published 2015
Weslandia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,124 ratings — published 1999
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,983 ratings — published 2010
The Evolution of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.39 — 322 ratings — published 1961
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,169 ratings — published 2017
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,305 ratings — published 2012
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,475 ratings — published 1992
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,277 ratings — published 2017
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,020 ratings — published 2018
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,335 ratings — published 1918
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,066 ratings — published 2010
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,342,133 ratings — published 2011
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,237 ratings — published 1963
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,678 ratings — published 2000
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,493 ratings — published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,148,164 ratings — published 1932
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 434,778 ratings — published 2003
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,668 ratings — published 1968
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,630 ratings — published 2011
The Renaissance (The Story of Civilization, #5)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,420 ratings — published 1953
The Reformation (The Story of Civilization #6)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,251 ratings — published 1957
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,088 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,258 ratings — published 1860
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 362,316 ratings — published 1995
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,123 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,519 ratings — published 2004
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 54,419 ratings — published 2024
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
― Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
― Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
