Quest: Global Human Civilization

Thousands of years ago people began organizing themselves into societies, with governments and leaders. They created their own trading systems, economies and social rules. These systems have evolved over thousands of generations into the complex machine that shapes the world we live in today. Understanding the inner workings, history and cogs of civilization is a fundamental step towards becoming a world class citizen that continues shaping society in new ways.

Add nonfiction books you've read about world economics, politics, sociology, or international relations.

4 occurrences

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

SciencePhilosophyHistory

464 PagesJanuary 2011

Read by 8 people

2 occurrences

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

HistoryPoliticsPhilosophy

128 Pages2003

Read by 4 people

2 occurrences

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth

EconomicsPolitics

320 PagesApril 2017

Read by 2 people

2 occurrences

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Pérez

Anthropology & SociologyPoliticsEconomics

432 PagesMarch 2019

Read by 7 people

1 occurrence

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

by Janina Ramírez

History

July 2022

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

Contemporary Classics - The Feminist Press

Historical FictionParanormalMedicine

112 PagesNovember 1972

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel

EconomicsPoliticsPhilosophy

320 PagesJanuary 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Socialism, Utopian and Scientific

by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

EconomicsPhilosophyPolitics

130 PagesJanuary 1880

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

by Sa'ed Atshan

PhilosophyHistoryAnthropology & Sociology

304 PagesMay 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

Historical FictionEconomicsPolitics

270 PagesMarch 2010

Read by 4 people

1 occurrence

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

by Travis Alabanza

Nonfiction

August 2022

100

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde

EssaysPolitics

256 PagesJune 1984

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Bri...

by Richard L. Currier

History

416 PagesAugust 2015

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

by Mikki Kendall

EssaysPolitics

267 PagesFebruary 2020

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

by Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil

Memoir & AutobiographyHistory

288 PagesApril 2018

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

by Christopher Ryan

PsychologyPhilosophyHistory

400 PagesJanuary 2018

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975

by Neal Gabler

BiographyHistoryPolitics

October 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Worn Out: How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion's Sins

by Alyssa Hardy

256 PagesSeptember 2022

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Wage-Labour and Capital

by Florence Kelley, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

EconomicsPoliticsPhilosophy

52 Pages1891

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

by Amanda Leduc

Fairy TaleMemoir & AutobiographyAnthropology & Sociology

February 2020

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

by Ruby Hamad

HistoryPoliticsAnthropology & Sociology

September 2019

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Socialism

by Michael Newman

HistoryPoliticsPhilosophy

208 PagesJuly 2005

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Benjamin Franklin

by Walter Isaacson

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

July 2003

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

by Jimmy Carter

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

July 2015

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

by Yanis Varoufakis

HistoryEconomicsPolitics

226 Pages2013

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

by Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland

Memoir & Autobiography

September 2016

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Queer There and Everywhere: 22 People Who Changed the World

by Sarah Prager

BiographyHistory

272 PagesMay 2017

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

by Donna Zuckerberg

PhilosophyHistoryPolitics

288 PagesOctober 2018

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

by Joanne Limburg

EssaysMemoir & Autobiography

272 PagesJuly 2021

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Audacity of Hope

by Barack Obama

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

375 Pages2006

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Communist Manifesto

by A.J.P. Taylor, Bruno Bongiovanni, Frederick Engles, More...

HistoryPhilosophyPolitics

February 1848

Read by 6 people

1 occurrence

On Palestine

by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

HistoryPoliticsPhilosophy

215 PagesMarch 2015

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

464 PagesMay 2016

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

by Sunaura Taylor

PhilosophyPoliticsFood & Drink

272 PagesOctober 2015

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Forge of Darkness

by Steven Erikson

The Kharkanas Trilogy #1

High/Epic FantasyAdventureDark Fantasy

665 PagesJuly 2012

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

by Randy Shilts

ScienceHistoryPolitics

656 PagesNovember 1987

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

A Promised Land

by Barack Obama

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

November 2020

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

by Ashley Shew

EssaysPoliticsAnthropology & Sociology

160 PagesSeptember 2023

100

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

by Mike Duncan

HistoryPolitics

352 PagesOctober 2017

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Law: A Very Short Introduction

by Raymond Wacks

Very Short Introductions #180

EducationalPhilosophyPolitics

172 PagesMarch 2008

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer

SciencePhilosophyFood & Drink

342 PagesOctober 2009

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World

by Rahm Emanuel

Memoir & AutobiographyPoliticsAnthropology & Sociology

256 PagesFebruary 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Decision Points

by George W. Bush

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

512 PagesOctober 2010

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

by Mitchell Zuckoff

Historical FictionMilitary FictionPolitics

352 PagesSeptember 2014

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

by Angela Y. Davis

EssaysHistoryPolitics

180 PagesAugust 2015

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

by C. Riley Snorton

History

256 PagesDecember 2017

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

ScienceHistoryAnthropology & Sociology

494 PagesMay 1997

100

Read by 5 people