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(0)Jared M Diamond
Author
Lexile measure
1440L
Language
English
Description
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xi, 499 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 502 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"With his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of why civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how some nations successfully recover from crises while adopting selective changes--a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals--ranging...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
1460L
Physical Desc
xi, 575 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world,...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic detective story that offers a gripping exposé on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns.