The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
$29.82
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2014
Summary
The #1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today.
Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well? In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancesto…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141024486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141024488 |
| Author: | Jared Diamond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, and Collapse, a #1 international bestseller. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.
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