TY - BOOK ID - 68814443 TI - Humans : a brief history of how we f*cked it all up PY - 2019 SN - 9781472259059 PB - London Wildfire DB - UniCat KW - Disasters KW - History KW - History. KW - Miscellanea. KW - World history KW - Miscellanea UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68814443 AB - "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..." ER -