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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed more books like this

by Jared Diamond

In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies more books like this

by Jared Diamond

This history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might explain why, in the modern period, some groups seem to have significantly greater material wealth than others. The author is an evolutionary biologist and his scientific approach to human history draws ...

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition more books like this

by Jared Diamond

With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller--over 1.5 million copies sold--is now a major PBS special. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "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 ...

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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal more books like this

by Jared Diamond

A provocative look at mankind's evolution from the ape into the complex creature we call human. By standards of other animals, our powerful civilization appears unique. So do many of our behaviors, including our sexual habits and the ways we select mates. Yet in many respects we are merely another species of ape--our genes are more than 98% ...

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Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

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by Jared Diamond

Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? There is no more knowledgeable authority than the award-winning author of THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE to answer these intriguing questions. Here is a delightfully entertaining and ...

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What Evolution is

What Evolution is more books like this

by Ernst Mayr

The nonagenarian Ernst Mayer provides an explanation of Darwinian evolution written for those readers who are either unclear how evolution works, or who understand the function of evolutionary theory but question Darwin's version of it. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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Guns germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13000 years more books like this

by Jared M. Diamond

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel more books like this

by Jared Diamond, Doug Ordunio (Read by)

Scholar and professor Jared Diamond made a huge splash with this fascinating but controversial book, which argues that geography and environment have almost singlehandedly determined the course of human history. Dig deeper into his contentions with the information inside this invaluable reader's handbook: Why did Europe colonize Africa and Asia ...

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The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee more books like this

by Jared M. Diamond

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by Jared Diamond

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" examines the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations. Abridged. 5 CDs.

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The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography

The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography more books like this

by Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond

Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet ...

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Why Sex is Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

Why Sex is Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality more books like this

by Jared Diamond

Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? There is no more knowledgeable authority than the award-winning author of THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE to answer these intriguing questions. Here is a delightfully entertaining and ...

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Great Minds of Science more books like this

by Dr. Robert T Bakker, PH.D., Robert C Gallo, Jared Diamond

This made-for-audio program based on the PBS special brings together five of today's most brilliant minds to give first-hand, practical information on the most important science issues of our times. Contributors include Sallie Baliunas, Jared Diamond, Sylvia Earle, and Marvin Minsky.

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Ecology and Evolution of Communities more books like this

by Martin L Cody (Editor), Jared Diamond (Editor)

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Community Ecology more books like this

by Diamond, Case

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Guns, germs and steel : how the inequalities of wealth and power among modern peoples were moulded by prehistory more books like this

by Jared M. Diamond

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Eco and Evol Comm C more books like this

by Martin L Cody, Jared Diamond

In recent times, the science of ecology has been rejuvenated and has moved to a central position in biology. This volume contains eighteen original, major contributions by leaders in the field, all associates of the late Robert MacArthur, whose work has stimulated many of the recent developments in ecology. The intellectual ferment of the field is ...

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Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea more books like this

by Jared Diamond

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Collapse : how societies choose to fail or survive

by Jared M. Diamond

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by Jared Diamond

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Collapse : how societies choose to fail or survive

by Jared M. Diamond

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Colapso / Collapse: Por Que Unas Sociedades Perduran Y Otras Desaparecen / How Societies Choose to Fail Or Succeed (Historia / History)

by Jared Diamond

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Por Que Es Divetido El Sexo? / Why is Sex Fun: La Evolucion De La Sexualidad Humana / the Evolution of Human Sexuality

by Jared Diamond

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