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31. Dez. 2012 · “Challenging and smart…By focusing his infectious intellect and incredible experience on nine broad areas -- peace and war, young and old, danger and response, religion, language and health -- and sifting through thousands of years of customs across 39 traditional societies, Diamond shows us many features of the past that we would be wise to adopt.”--Minneapolis Star Tribune “The World ...
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In The World Until Yesterday Jared Diamond examines traditional societies and the ways in which we may be able to learn from them in our era of sedentary desk jobs and virtual, on-line lives. Diamond examines such topics as: trade, conflict resolution, treatment of children and the elderly, risk, religion, language and diet.
The World Until Yesterday is a triumph.”--Paul R. Ehrlich, author of Human Natures “ The World Until Yesterday is another eye-opening and completely enchanting book by one of our major intellectual forces, as a writer, a thinker, a scientist, a human being. It's a rare treasure, both as an illuminating personal memoir and an engrossing look into the heart of traditional societies and the ...
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31. Dez. 2012 · Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea ...
19. Okt. 2012 · In The World Until Yesterday Jared Diamond examines traditional societies and the ways in which we may be able to learn from them in our era of sedentary desk jobs and virtual, on-line lives. Diamond examines such topics as: trade, conflict resolution, treatment of children and the elderly, risk, religion, language and diet.
The World Until Yesterday is the third in a series of best-selling and prize-winning volumes by Jared Diamond addressing the large issues of our current condition and possible futures. In Guns, Germs and Steel (1997) Diamond offers an account of how we have come to the present global situation of wide disparities in socio-economic development ...
