Zivilisation

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies

Jared Diamond.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Jared M. Diamond

The better angels of our nature: Why Violence has Declined

Steven Pinker

Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume I

Wing-tsit Chan, Irene Bloom, William Theodore De Bary, Burton Watson, Irene Cohen, Wing-Tsit Chan

Civilization: the West and the rest

Niall Ferguson

The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life

George Ritzer

Civilisation: a personal view

Kenneth Clark.

Theming of America

Mark Gottdiener

A short history of progress

Ronald Wright.