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Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future."I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,00 ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$27.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: very good
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$35.00 NZD
Category: Leading Edge 2010 | Reading Level: good-very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the c ...Show more
Swing Kings - The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution by Jared Diamond
$38.00 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport
The best baseball book I've read in years. -- Sam Walker - An exhilarating story of innovation. -- Ben Reiter - Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball. -- Baseball Prospectus From the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, followin ...Show more
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
$12.99 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
$34.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. This work surveys life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
$22.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
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 s ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: good-very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
$29.99 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing | Series: Science Masters
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause? Human sexuality se ...Show more
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