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Swing Kings - The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution by Jared Diamond
Category: Sport
The best baseball book I've read in years. -- Sam Walker - An exhilarating story of innovation. -- Ben Reiter - Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball. -- Baseball Prospectus From the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, followin ...Show more
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
Category: Science
More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. This work surveys life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal ...Show more
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Young Readers ed.) by Jared Diamond
Category: Children's Non Fiction
The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions. * If we share more than 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, how is it that we c ...Show more
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond
Category: Children's Educational
Pulitzer Prize winning Jared Diamond's first foray into illustrated young adult nonfiction
The Third Chimpanzee for Young People by Professor Jared Diamond (UCLA University of California, Los Angeles UCLA University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles UCLA UCLA UCLA)
Category: Children's Non Fiction
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons--all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of nuclear we ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies by Jared Diamond
Category: Science
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The Wor ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared M. Diamond
Category: Culture
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. 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 unbridgea ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The no. 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 s ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crises (or Don't) (H/B) by Jared Diamond
Category: Languages and Reference
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steeland Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countrie ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
Category: Business, Economics and Law
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
Category: History
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more