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47 produkter
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Häftad, 2017
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (6)
124 kr
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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist …
Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings
(When) Do Leaders Make a Difference?
Inbunden, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
280 kr
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Can one political leader change the course of history? Should CEOs be given big bonuses when a company performs well? Will firing a coach actually change the fortunes of the team? What does a religion’s success owe to a charismatic founder? In a fresh take on the interplay of power, character and …
Guns, Germs and Steel
A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
Häftad, 1998
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
147 kr
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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, …
Upheaval
How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
Häftad, 2020
168 kr
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'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and …
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Inbunden, 2005
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
403 kr
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 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 …
Vete, vapen och virus
E-bok
205 kr
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"En bok som ställer de stora frågorna och ger stora svar." Yuval Noah Harari "Fascinerande lägger grunden för förståelsen av vår historia." Bill Gates Jared Diamonds moderna klassiker sammanfattar mästerligt människans historia de senaste 13 000 åren och förklarar varför kontinenternas utveckling …
World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Häftad, 2013
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
187 kr
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The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver 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, …
Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
Häftad, 2011
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
270 kr
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel , the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population …
Last Tree on Easter Island
Häftad, 2021
66 kr
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed …
Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
208 kr
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From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies …
Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings
(When) Do Leaders Matter?
Inbunden, 2026
354 kr
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Can one person change the world? What qualities determine effective leadership? How do individual talent and historical circumstances combine to shape great leaders? From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel , a landmark study of …
Natural Experiments of History
Av Jared Diamond, James A. Robinson
Häftad, 2011
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
235 kr
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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 …
Birds of Northern Melanesia
Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography
E-bok, 2001
1174 kr
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Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia …
Guns, Germs and Steel
(Patterns of Life)
Häftad, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
160 kr
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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 …
Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
E-bok, 2013
147 kr
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From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies …
Why Is Sex Fun?
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom. 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 …
Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings
(When) Do Leaders Matter? (Large Print)
Häftad, 2026
413 kr
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Can one person change the world? What qualities determine effective leadership? How do individual talent and historical circumstances combine to shape great leaders? From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel , a landmark study of …
Swing Kings: The Inside Story Of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
Häftad, 2021
188 kr
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"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 …
Swing Kings
The Inside Story of Baseball''s Home Run Revolution
E-bok, 2020
180 kr
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"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 ProspectusFrom the Wall Street Journal''s national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, …
Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee
how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Häftad, 1992
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
155 kr
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the …
Upheaval
How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
E-bok, 2019
108 kr
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'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of thelandmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and …
Last Tree on Easter Island
E-bok, 2021
57 kr
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed …
Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings
(When) Do Leaders Make a Difference?
E-bok, 2026
170 kr
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Can one political leader change the course of history? Should CEOs be given big bonuses when a company performs well? Will firing a coach actually change the fortunes of the team? What does a religion’s success owe to a charismatic founder? In a fresh take on the interplay of power, character and …
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
161 kr
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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 …
Ecology and Evolution of Communities
Inbunden, 1975
1330 kr
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In recent times, the science of ecology has been rejuvenated and has moved to a central position in biology. This volume contains eighteen original, major contributions by leaders in the field, all associates of the late Robert MacArthur, whose work has stimulated many of the recent developments in …
Norse Greenland
A Controlled Experiment in Collapse--A Selection from Collapse (Penguin Tracks)
E-bok, 2012
48 kr
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A timely and fascinating exploration of the collapse of prehistoric Norse society in Greenland—excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond’s Collapse This excerpt from the New York Times –bestselling book Collapse takes a timely and fascinating look at prehistoric Norse …
Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee
how our animal heritage affects the way we live
E-bok, 2013
125 kr
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the …
Guns, Germs and Steel
A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
E-bok, 2013
125 kr
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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, …
Third Chimpanzee for Young People
On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
E-bok, 2014
207 kr
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At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons—all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of …
