Humans Audiobook by Tom Phillips

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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://audiobookzap.com/free Title: Humans Subtitle: A Brief History of How We F--ked It All Up Categories: Anthropology, Funny, Popular Culture, Social Science Author: Tom Phillips Narrator: Nish Kumar Publisher: Wildfire Release date: 07-26-2018 Language: English Summary: 'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant' Jeremy Clarkson 'F--king brilliant' Sarah Knight READ FOR YOU BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED COMIC AND HUMAN NISH KUMAR, THIS IS AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F--K-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--k 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--ked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse... FURTHER 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 ...

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