{"product_id":"humans-by-tom-phillips-9781472259059","title":"Humans","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'F*cking brilliant'\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Knight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Very funny'\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Watson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck-ups of human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking \u003ci\u003eitself\u003c\/i\u003e 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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSo, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFurther praise for \u003ci\u003eHumans\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chronicles humanity's myriad follies down the ages with malicious glee and much wit ... a rib-tickling page-turner'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eBusiness Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A timely, irreverent gallop through thousands of years of human stupidity'\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Griffin\u003ci\u003e, PING-PONG DIPLOMACY: THE SECRET HISTORY BEHIND THE GAME THAT CHANGED THE WORLD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596638798060,"sku":"9781472259059","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781472259059-humans.jpg?v=1777933466","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/humans-by-tom-phillips-9781472259059","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}