Carlin, Dan,
The end is always hear : apocalytic moments from the bronze age collapse to nuclear near misses / Dan Carlin. - London : William Collins, c2019. - xiv, 270 pages : 24 cm.
Creator of the Award-Winning Hardcore History Podcast.
Includes index.
Chapter 1 Do tough times make for tougher people? -- Chapter 2 Suffer the children -- Chapter 3 The end of the world as they knew it -- Chapter 4 Judgment at Nineveh -- Chapter 5 The barbarian life cycle -- Chapter 6 A pandemic prologue? -- Chapter 7 The quick and the dead -- Chapter 8 The road to hell.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo tough times create tougher people?
Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself?
Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around the corner?Combining his trademark thrilling, expansive storytelling with rigorous history and thought experiment, Dan Carlin connects past with future to explore the tipping points of collapsing civilisations - from the plague to nuclear war.Looking across every brush with apocalypse, crisis and collapse, this book also weighs, knowing all we do about human patterns, whether our world is likely to become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore.FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING, 100+ MILLION DOWNLOAD PODCAST HARDCORE HISTORY" --Provided by the publisher
Adult
Text in English
9780008340933 [newsprint]
Civilization
Civilization History
History
Imaginary histories
World history
The end is always hear : apocalytic moments from the bronze age collapse to nuclear near misses / Dan Carlin. - London : William Collins, c2019. - xiv, 270 pages : 24 cm.
Creator of the Award-Winning Hardcore History Podcast.
Includes index.
Chapter 1 Do tough times make for tougher people? -- Chapter 2 Suffer the children -- Chapter 3 The end of the world as they knew it -- Chapter 4 Judgment at Nineveh -- Chapter 5 The barbarian life cycle -- Chapter 6 A pandemic prologue? -- Chapter 7 The quick and the dead -- Chapter 8 The road to hell.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo tough times create tougher people?
Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself?
Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around the corner?Combining his trademark thrilling, expansive storytelling with rigorous history and thought experiment, Dan Carlin connects past with future to explore the tipping points of collapsing civilisations - from the plague to nuclear war.Looking across every brush with apocalypse, crisis and collapse, this book also weighs, knowing all we do about human patterns, whether our world is likely to become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore.FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING, 100+ MILLION DOWNLOAD PODCAST HARDCORE HISTORY" --Provided by the publisher
Adult
Text in English
9780008340933 [newsprint]
Civilization
Civilization History
History
Imaginary histories
World history