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    ISBN
    9780143124405

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Penguin Publishing Group
    ISBN-10
    0143124404
    ISBN-13
    9780143124405
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    159860643

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    World until Yesterday : What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
    Number of Pages
    544 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2013
    Topic
    Civilization, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World, Customs & Traditions
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Social Science, History
    Author
    Jared Diamond
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.2 in
    Item Weight
    17.2 Oz
    Item Length
    8.4 in
    Item Width
    5.5 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    Dewey Edition
    23
    TitleLeading
    The
    Grade From
    Twelfth Grade
    Dewey Decimal
    305.89/912
    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? "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 Number
    DU744.35.D32D53 2013

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