PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY PB

Εκδότης: PENGUIN
Συγγραφέας: JARED DIAMOND
Isbn: 9780141024486
Διαστάσεις: 197Χ129Χ24
Αριθμός σελίδων: 512
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 4/9/2013
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Περιγραφη

"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 ge