World until yesterday

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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 Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book. Bookpage 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 unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday-in evolutionary time-when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years-a past that has mostly vanished-and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond's most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn't romanticize traditional societies-after all, we are shocked by some of their practices-but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.

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World Until Yesterday

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Reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history in evolutionary terms this book explores how tribal people approach essential human problems from health and diet to conflict resolution and language th Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

The World Until Yesterday

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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 Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers

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In this book robert l kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter gatherers were paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nat Uiterlijk 17 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 29 oktober 2013

Aantal pagina's: 499

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Jared Diamond

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin LCC US

Originele titel: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies

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Product breedte: 139 mm

Product hoogte: 30 mm

Product lengte: 214 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 141 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 35 mm

Verpakking lengte: 210 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 485 g

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EAN: 9780143124405

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