100 More Stories The Lesser Known History Of Humanity

In the sequal to 100 Stories: The Lesser Known History of Humanity, John spent more time researching the annals of history to bring 100 more stories of things you likely never heard about (or didn't get the full story on) in history class. This second edition brings more of the same types of funny, intriguing, and downright horrifying stories over the last couple thousand years of recorded human history. Inside, you'll find interesting characters, fascinating war stories, and profiles of some of the worst serial killers that have ever lived.

Every time he thinks he's scraped the bottom of the research barrel, John continues to find more strange, awful, and horrifying stories that history would prefer we all forget. The truth, however, is that the world we live in has generally been a pretty unpleasant place. If you've read any of the previous three editions of the 100 Stories series, you know what to expect. This one, somehow, may outdo them all.

This edition of The Lesser Known History of Humanity series marks 500 stories that you likely weren't taught in high school. Was it because America's education system-both public and private-failed you miserably because the US Department of Education is run by a commission of global elites elected by the Bilderberg Group whose sole purpose is to revise the history books to a certain narrative that is ultimately designed to skew your view of racial and cultural histories to push forward a pro-white, pro-America, pro-Christian point of view? Maybe. Or, perhaps more reasonably, that after over 5,000 years of recorded human history, there are simply too many stories that could be included in any mainstream history book. Beyond that, telling young children in their most formative years about some of the most awful, heinous, and bizarre events and people from history is probably a great way to scar them for life and add fuel to the raging dumpster fire our society already is. It's much easier to keep those history books to nothing more than a timeline of political succession and large-scale international conflict while we save the good stuff for adulthood, just like everything else. Like the previous four iterations, this version of the series is full of killers, strange characters, and head-scratching events that will leave you feeling oddly better about the current state of the world. Enjoy!

What else can be said about John Hinson's 100 Stories series that hasn't been written yet? You know what this book covers, and you should at least have some idea of what to expect as you go through this set of stories. It's hard to write the same thing six different ways, but it's also hard to write as many books as John has written up to this point. For this sixth edition of the 100 Stories series, John has continued his relentless combing and scraping of historical records to find the stories you've likely never heard before. He is most certainly on a government watch list because of it, but he does it for you.

The eighth edition of the 100 Stories series brings you a continued dose of the weird history you know and love. There are serial killers, strange characters, head-scratching events, and more. As always, this series aims to show you that things aren't any worse than ever...it's always been a crazy world out there. Don't buy into all the media fear mongering. Things, technically, have actually never been better. Sure, the Russians are always up to something. There's unrest in the Middle East. There's whatever nonsense going on in the political world that threatens to wipe out the fabric of our democracy and decades of human progress. But it isn't that bad. The number of active serial killers is dwindling. There are fewer diseases that can kill us. Wars, though they still exist, are fewer and farther between and shorter lived. And after reading this book, you'll feel better about living in today's world than any other point in history.

The seventh edition of the 100 Stories series continues to be nothing more than a reiteration of John Hinson's core message: Things aren't the worst they've ever been. The world has, in fact, always been an inferior moronic cesspool of chaos and entropy. The human dickhead parade that we've created as a species has not gotten worse. Shockingly, by many standards, it has actually gotten better. This book, in its own weird way, aims to prove that to you by looking back through time at more of the awful, bizarre, and interesting moments in history you likely missed along the way while your history classes and textbooks were focused on wars and political regimes.

Which wars killed the most people? Was the twentieth century the most violent in history? Are religions, tyrants or ideologies responsible for the greatest bloodshed? In this remarkable and original book, 'atrocitologist' Matthew White assesses man's inhumanity to man over several thousand years. From the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage to the cataclysmic events of World War II, Atrocitology spans centuries and civilisations as it measures the hundred most violent episodes in history. Relying on statistical analysis rather than grand theories, White offers three big lessons: chaos is more deadly than tyranny, the world is much more disorganised than we realise, and more civilians than soldiers are killed in wars—in fact, the army is usually the safest place to be during wartime. Our understanding of history's worst atrocities is patchy and skewed. This book sets the record straight, charting those events with the largest man-made death tolls without fear or favour.

'The book that changed my life... a constant companion' Bill Bailey 'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily Telegraph This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures are placed alongside each other as Zeldin discusses how men and women have lost and regained hope; how they have learnt to have interesting conversations; how some have acquired an immunity to loneliness; how new forms of love and desire have been invented; how respect has become more valued than power; how the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed; why even the privileged are often gloomy; and why parents and children are changing their minds about what they want from each other.