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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Signed)
by Jared Diamond
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- as new
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670024813
- ISBN 13
- 9780670024810
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 2012. First edition, first printing. As New/Fine. A pristine copy with gray cloth spine on light pink paper boards and copper titles on spine No marks or damage at all The unclipped DJ is also undamaged
Inscribed by author on the title page "Best Wished, Jared Diamond"
This copy is of gift quality 499 pp.
Inscribed by author on the title page "Best Wished, Jared Diamond"
This copy is of gift quality 499 pp.
Synopsis
The 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? 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.
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- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AA1621
- Title
- The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Signed)
- Author
- Jared Diamond
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0670024813
- ISBN 13
- 9780670024810
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
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About Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
Seller of high quality books and ephemera, emphasizing older and unusual items, such as signed or association copies. I try to offer the kind of books, at fair prices, that appeal to me, hoping that they will appeal to others also.
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