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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: 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 Survive by Jared Diamond
Category: Science
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
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
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: 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
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
Category: Classics | 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 by Jared Diamond
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created ...Show more
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Young Readers ed.) by Jared Diamond
Category: 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: Education
Pulitzer Prize winning Jared Diamond's first foray into illustrated young adult nonfiction