https://pithybooks.com/tags/big-history/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “big history”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:10 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/guns-germs-and-steel/ https://pithybooks.com/books/guns-germs-and-steel/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others. https://pithybooks.com/books/sapiens/ https://pithybooks.com/books/sapiens/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harari's Sapiens from cover to cover: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural bargain, shared fictions like money and nations, and the scientific centuries that made Homo sapiens the animal that rewrote its own rules.