{"product_id":"9781472259059","title":"Humans : A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Phillips, Tom \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eGeneral \u0026amp; world history\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 April 2019 by Headline Publishing Group (Wildfire) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 196 x 24 | 288g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' Jeremy Clarkson'F*cking brilliant' Sarah KnightAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORYIn the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the world's leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President... it's pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven't exactly grown wiser with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFURTHER PRAISE FOR HUMANS:'Very funny' Mark Watson'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining' The Telegraph'Chronicles humanity's myriad follies down the ages with malicious glee and much wit ... a rib-tickling page-turner' Business Standard'A timely, irreverent gallop through thousands of years of human stupidity' Nicholas Griffin, Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45795097280752,"sku":"9781472259059","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781472259059.jpg?v=1713529267","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9781472259059","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}