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Humanity: The World Before Religion, War & Inequality Kindle Edition

by Barry Brown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Human life began and flourished before the invention of war. As such, human history is a two-part story. The first story is the tale of how human civilization thrived for 3 million years without war. The second begins 6,000 years ago when the very first war changed history and divided the world.
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    January 16, 2017
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01NCX7MD6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tellwell Talent (January 16, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 16, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3123 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Barry Brown

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Master Researcher Barry Brown is a story-teller who loves new knowledge, ideas and human history. A Pulitzer Prize-nominated Canadian journalist, he has written more than 3,000 articles for 120 news outfits worldwide, including ABCNews.com, MSNBC.com, Sky News (UK), New York Times, Washington Times, LA Times, Globe and Mail (Canada), Jerusalem Post (Israel) and The Bulletin (Australia), AP and UPI. Humanity is the result of six years of research into the origins of human civilization before the invention of war 6,000 years ago, and how the first war changed the course of human history. He lives in Toronto with his two cats Esperanza and Feliz who freely join him on walks around his neighborhood. He is the only cat owner with street cred among the dog people.

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Hulya Koc
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018
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I read it easily. It is fluent and nice.
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LSBC
1.0 out of 5 stars Full of unsupported assertions on early humanity
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2018
I was really excited to get this book because I am quite interested in anthropology. But, while Brown sometimes quotes scholarly articles for support, the vast majority of his writing (I haven’t finished the book yet) contains unsupported (and likely
ultimately unsupportable) assertions regarding early humanity. For this reason, I do not recommend this book for anyone.
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Lucky
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and Accessible
Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2022
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Usually I avoid history books because I find them to be boring or hard to follow.
Humanity is much more accessible.
I like how the author explains things in a way that compares things to today’s references.
I’m so far only halfway through, and am in awe of how far back humanity goes, and at how well he is able to convey how it most probably was. He frequently cites the sources of his findings and conclusions, as well as taking educated speculation on what it was like. This book has whetted my interest in expanding my knowledge of history. It has shed some light as to how so many political, cultural and religious practices came to be. I feel a better understanding as to the logic behind various cultural practices and feel more united to my fellow sentient beings of past, present and future as a result of discovering this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A MASTERPIECE OF RESEARCH
Reviewed in Canada on April 9, 2017
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A breath of fresh air and a fascinating narrative. It touches on what seems to be so difficult to encompass for a writer - humanity without segregation or fault. It truly is a book for all.Your book is very thought provoking without being academic. I kept reading passages out loud to those around me, stimulating conversation.Congratulations on this masterpiece of research.
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