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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | 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 by Jared M. Diamond
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
A study of the rise of civilization that argues that human development is not based on race or ethnic differences but rather is linked to biological diversity, discussing the evolution of agriculture, technology, writing, political systems, and religious belief.
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | 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
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Category: World History/Politics | 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sports/Fitness
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 World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies by Jared Diamond
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The Wor ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | 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
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Category: World History/Politics | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | 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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