المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

المساهمون: Zilber, ʻAtalyah.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Dani (New Guinean people) -- History., Dani (New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs., Dani (New Guinean people) -- Cultural assimilation., Social evolution -- Papua New Guinea., Social change -- Papua New Guinea.

جغرافية الموضوع: Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Dani (New Guinean people) -- History., Dani (New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs., Dani (New Guinean people) -- Cultural assimilation., Social evolution -- Papua New Guinea., Social change -- Papua New Guinea., Social evolution.

جغرافية الموضوع: Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.

الوصف: Overview: 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. A characteristically provocative, enlightening, and entertaining book, The World Until Yesterday will be essential and delightful reading.

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Natural history

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Natural history

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

المساهمون: Diamond, Jared M., Thomson, James A., 1945-, Rand Corporation.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Social evolution., Civilization -- History., Human beings -- Effect of environment on., Ethnology., Culture diffusion., History.

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

المساهمون: Loṭem, ʻImanuʼel.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Social history -- Case studies., Social change -- Case studies., Environmental policy -- Case studies.

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Social evolution., Civilization -- History., Ethnology., Human beings -- Effect of environment on., Culture diffusion.

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Social evolution., Civilization -- History., Ethnology., Human beings -- Effect of environment on., Culture diffusion., Social Environment., Biological Evolution., Civilization -- history., Social Behavior., History.

الوصف: Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide. The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. Thirty-two illustrations.

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Social history -- Case studies., Social change -- Case studies., Environmental policy -- Case studies., Civilization -- history., Social Conditions -- history., Environment., Case studies.

الوصف: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals or environment gives us.

المؤلفون: Diamond, Jared M.

المساهمون: Zilber, ʻAtalyah.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Social evolution., Civilization -- History., Ethnology., Human beings -- Effect of environment on., Culture diffusion.