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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 452,797 ratings — published 1997
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,412 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,238,519 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,581 ratings — published 2015
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,239 ratings — published 2011
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 175,972 ratings — published 2018
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,023,567 ratings — published 2006
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,959 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,166,287 ratings — published 1954
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,476 ratings — published 1988
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,318 ratings — published 2009
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 50,060 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,615 ratings — published 2021
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,604 ratings — published 2012
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,691 ratings — published 1995
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,496 ratings — published 2014
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,209 ratings — published 2006
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 325,568 ratings — published 1961
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,482 ratings — published 2011
Weslandia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,098 ratings — published 1999
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,449 ratings — published 2005
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,460 ratings — published 2010
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,546 ratings — published 1935
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,546 ratings — published 2019
The Evolution of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.39 — 312 ratings — published 1961
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,763 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 — 11,004 ratings — published 2012
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,742 ratings — published 1992
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,796 ratings — published 1975
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,136 ratings — published 2018
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,287,228 ratings — published 2011
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 — 4,633 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 — 46,703 ratings — published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,054,228 ratings — published 1932
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.22 — 418,728 ratings — published 2003
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.17 — 47,759 ratings — published 2015
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,044 ratings — published 2017
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 20,124 ratings — published
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,225 ratings — published 2007
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,894 ratings — published 2010
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,023 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,192 ratings — published 1860
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 333,413 ratings — published 1995
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,195 ratings — published 1963
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,097 ratings — published 2022
The High King of Montival (Emberverse, #7)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,899 ratings — published 2010
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,669 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.52 — 159,460 ratings — published 2020
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,213 ratings — published 1918
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 381 ratings — published 2000
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.”
― The Story of the Malakand Field Force
― The Story of the Malakand Field Force
“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 untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. And then...and then -- ah -- we open our eyes and the day is before us and ... we become ourselves.”
― Stargirl
― Stargirl
