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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780143036555
In his runaway bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:576
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780670033379
In his million-copy bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume...more details Format:Hardback Pages:592
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780143117001
In his runaway bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin...more details Format:Paperback Pages:589
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780140279511
From groundbreaking writer and thinker, Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:592
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780713992861
In Collapse, Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat...more details Format:Hardback Pages:608
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography...more details Format:Book
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780307932426
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13...more details Format:CD
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780393061314
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11...more details Format:Hardback Pages:528
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780393317558
In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage...more details Format:Paperback
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780674035577
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition...more details Format:Hardback Pages:278
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780674060197
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition...more details Format:Paperback Pages:275
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780099913801
More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle...more details Format:Paperback Pages:360
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780060845506
The Development of an Extraordinary Species
We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:407
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780753801543
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year - including when the female is pregnant...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Jared Diamond
ISBN:9780465031269
To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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National Geographic;Jared Diamond
ISBN:9781426203145
A fascinating sweep of global developments, this fact-filled book delivers what National Geographic has introduced into households for more than a century: The world and all that is in it. A thousand concise nuggets of text...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:415
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13...more details Format:CD
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Ernst Mayr;Jared Diamond JaredDiamond
ISBN:9781417632527
At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding of evolution has affected the viewpoints and values of modern man....more details
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Diamond Jared
ISBN:9780241958681
From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword, on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:592