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World until Yesterday : What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143124404
ISBN-139780143124405
eBay Product ID (ePID)159860643
Product Key Features
Book TitleWorld until Yesterday : What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Number of Pages544 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicCivilization, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World, Customs & Traditions
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorJared Diamond
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight17.2 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal305.89/912
SynopsisThe bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? "As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday--in evolutionary time--when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions. The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years--a past that has mostly vanished--and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond's most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn't romanticize traditional societies--after all, we are shocked by some of their practices--but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
LC Classification NumberDU744.35.D32D53 2013
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