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

Door Jared Diamond

Categorie
Algemeen Landen & Volkeren
Boeknummer
#410699-XU11
Titel
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Auteur
Diamond, Jared
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
0141024488
ISBN13
9780141024486
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with photographs in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver 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 Pu... (Lees verder)litzer 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.
Pagina's
498
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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