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The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of human life as it had been for tens of thousands of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our own lives today. This is Jared Diamond's most personal book to date, as he draws extensively on his ...
29. Okt. 2013 · The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?
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- Jared M. Diamond
- $15.99
- Penguin Books
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? | Diamond, Jared | ISBN: 9780670024810 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
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31. Dez. 2012 · The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can...
12. März 2015 · The World Until Yesterday (hereafter TWUY) begins with an airport check-in scene in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, a setting that anchors the personal elements of the volume and allows Diamond to set the contrast between a traditional society perched on the edge of modernity and his own world—one probably more familiar to readers of this journa...
- Bruce Winterhalder
- bwinterhalder@ucdavis.edu
- 2015
In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms.
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? New York: Viking, 2012. 512 pages. Hardcover, $36.00. Geographer Jared Diamond has done it again. In The World until Yesterday, the celebrated author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse has given us another thought-provoking and fascinating book. As in his previous ...
