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... Zobraziť viac
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, ... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
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 contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, ... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
"The best baseball book Ive read in years."Sam Walker"An exhilarating story of innovation." Ben Reiter"Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." Baseball ProspectusFrom theWall Street Journals national baseball writer, the captivating... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement - now in one complete set... Zobraziť viac
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, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet ... Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac
Penguin: Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about... Zobraziť viac
Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, at a time when crises are erupting around the world, he explores what... Zobraziť viac
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?"As he did in his Pulitzer... Zobraziť viac
Der Weltbestseller nun als erweiterte Neuausgabe!Die überwucherten Tempelruinen von Angkor Wat, die zerfallenden Pyramiden der Maya in Yucatan und die rätselhaften Moai-Statuen der Osterinsel - sie alle sind stille Zeugen von einstmals blühenden... Zobraziť viac
Wie sich der Mensch innerhalb kurzer Zeit von einer Säugetierart unter vielen zu einem Eroberer der Welt aufschwang; und wie wir die Fähigkeit erwarben, all jenen Fortschritt über Nacht auszulöschen.In diesem mehrfach ausgezeichneten Buch erklärt Jared... Zobraziť viac
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
In seinem bahnbrechenden Buch weist der amerikanische Biologe Jared Diamond nach, daß nicht konstitutionelle Unterschiede der Menschen, sondern die klimatischen und geographischen Besonderheiten der verschiedenen Erdteile die Ursache für die Verteilung... Zobraziť viac
