Humans. A 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...