Humankind: A Hopeful History

Humankind: A Hopeful History

By
Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman
2019 • 498 pages

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Science And Engineering

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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History World

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Historicizing Fear
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Salt: A World History
Empires of the Word
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

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Read Again

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
How We Got to Now
The Inevitable
Seveneves
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Sociology

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The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Tyranny of Merit
Humankind: A Hopeful History
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Owned

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The Fifth Season
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Work

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We Don't Know Ourselves
The Greater Journey
Band of Brothers
The Guns of August
A Frog in the Fjord: One Year in Norway
A Man on the Moon

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History

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Livy II: History of Rome, Books 3-4
The Republic and The Laws
The Rise of the Roman Empire
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book II
The Twelve Caesars
The Jugurthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline
Catiline's War, The Jurgurthine War, Histories

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Non Fiction

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Outliers: The Story of Success
Blink
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

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Where the Crawdads Sing
The Da Vinci Code
Origin
The Gene
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
American Dirt
The Island of Sea Women

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History

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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Amsterdam A History of the World's Most Liberal City
A Short History of Nearly Everything
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These Truths: A History of the United States

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The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

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Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
The Art of Her Deal
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
Begin Again
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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Book Club

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