The World Until Yesterday

- What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

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  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 512 sider

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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, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well? In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms. Drawing on decades of his own fieldwork, Diamond explores how tribal people approach essential human problems, from health and diet to conflict resolution and language, and discovers they have much to teach us.

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, and Collapse, a #1 international bestseller. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

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  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal512
  • Udgivelsesdato05-09-2013
  • ISBN139780141024486
  • Forlag Penguin Books Ltd
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt398 g
  • Dybde2,3 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    12,9 cm
    19,8 cm

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