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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$26.95 AUD
Category: 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. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Sciences | 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
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Category: Science | Reading Level: 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
Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond
$38.95 AUD
Category: Science
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, wo ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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 Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created ...Show more
Why Is Sex Fun? : The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters
Why do humans differ in sexuality from close animal relatives and ancestors? Jared Diamond explores the evolutionary forces that gave shape to human sexual distinctions and shows how they contributed to what it means to be uniquely human.
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