The Second History of Man

By John Fox Bershof

The underlying frame of the History of Man Series is medicine and nearly all of science. At every turn in the road, it is my desire and hope to impart some understanding of the ailments that plague our species and the science that plagued us on high school tests-in as jargon-free way as possible. The overlying structure, however, as we travel disease by disease through the pages of these narratives, are the numerous jumping-off points, from which we will delve into the splendid history, mystery, and serendipity of science, the eddies and currents of human history, in all its splendor and all its tragedy, not to mention dips and dives into t6he vast cauldron of humanities, all that came before us, when humankind was just a gleam in evolution's eye. To paraphrase Bill Bryson, the wonderful story-teller, the History of Man Series is a "history of nearly everything."
The great and prolific sci-fi writer Stephen King once said, "Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings." The translation being: stay on point and mercilessly throttle your little side stories and anecdotes, even if they're cute, because they don't add to, and in fact mostly distract from, the real story. I adore Stephen King, but this book is precisely that, about those little darlings, all those jumping off points. We won't forget about medicine and science as we explore the humanities, but you can forget that this narrative will stay on a straight and narrow path; we won't be killing our darlings. Instead, we'll journey to the top of Everest and into the center of the Earth, from the beginning of time to the unforgiving time of dogma, collecting every darling-from science, history, art, music, biology, chemistry, physics, math, astronomy, geology, geography, anthropology, archaeology, religion, you name it-we find. We'll cherish all those darlings that make up the human history that remains eternal in all of us.
There is no beginning, no end. We'll just jump in and get cracking ... shall we?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08ZQDJZS3
• ISBN13: 9798711953517
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.0"