Humans. Brief History of How We F*cked It All up

AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY In 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. From 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. So, next time you think you´ve really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...