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Armas, Gérmenes y Acero by Jared Diamond
Category: Science
Hace trece mil anos la evolucion de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzo a tomar rumbos diferentes. La domesticacion de los animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en China, Mesoamerica y otras zonas geograficas otorgaron una ventaja inicial a los habitantes de esas regiones. Sin embargo, los or ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Category: Science
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, and what can ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
Category: Politics
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, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of ...Show more
Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
Category: Science & Natural History
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."I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,00 ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
Category: Science
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could ...Show more
Collapse - How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond
Category: Science & Natural History
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, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused so ...Show more
Green Ideas Slipcase by Greta Thunberg; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Dai Qing; Wangari Maathai; Jared Diamond; Wendell Berry; Edward O. Wilson; James Lovelock; Masanobu Fukuoka; Arne Næss; Rachel Carson; Naomi Klein; Aldo Leopold; Timothy Morton; George Monbiot; Bill McKibben; Amitav Ghosh; Tim Flannery; Terry Tempest Williams; Michael Pollan
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement - now in one complete setOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Thei ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared M. Diamond
Category: Science & Natural History
A study of the rise of civilization that argues that human development is not based on race or ethnic differences but rather is linked to biological diversity, discussing the evolution of agriculture, technology, writing, political systems, and religious belief.
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
Category: Science
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
Category: Science | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the c ...Show more
Natural Experiments of History by Ed. Jared Diamond
Category: unmapped
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, many manipulative experiments, while possible, wo ...Show more
Paperblanks Diary 2018 - Carmine Midi Week-at-a-time Verso by Diamond Jared
Category: Stationery