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    Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)

    Jared Diamond

    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?

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    Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

    Jared Diamond

    From the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse comes a brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don’t.

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    Guns, Germs And Steel

    Jared M. Diamond

    This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the…

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    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

    Jared Diamond

    What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way…

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    The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

    Jared Diamond

    Reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history in evolutionary terms. This book explores how tribal…

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    Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change

    Jared Diamond

    A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond’s visionary exploration of how nations cope with trauma and crisis, why some recover, and others don’t.

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize * New York Times Bestseller * Over Two Million Copies Sold One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation…

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    The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?

    Jared Diamond

    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…

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    Colapso: Por que unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen / Collapse: How So cieties Choose to Fail or Succeed

    Jared Diamond

    Translation of: Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed.

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    Crisis: Como reaccionan los paises en los momentos decisivos / Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

    Jared Diamond

    Jared Diamond culmina su trilogi a con un sobrecogedor estudio de co mo las naciones ma s poderosas afrontan sus horas ma s oscuras.

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    Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

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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.

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    Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball’s Home Run Revolution

    Jared Diamond

    A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2020 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. –Title page verso.

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    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

    Jared Diamond

    In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance…

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    Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

    Jared Diamond

    A riveting and illuminating Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don’t (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of…

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    Swing Kings: The Inside Story Of Baseball’s Home Run Revolution

    Jared Diamond

    A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2020 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. –Title page verso.

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    Armas, germenes y acero / Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond

    Hace trece mil anos la evolucion de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzo a tomar rumbos diferentes. La domesticacion de los animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en China, Mesoamerica…

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    The Last Tree on Easter Island

    Jared Diamond

    In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works

    Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the…

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    The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

    Jared M. Diamond

    From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel More than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee.

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    Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

    Jared Diamond

    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…

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond, PH D

    For use in schools and libraries only. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible…

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    Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond

    In this artful, informative, and delightful (book) ( New York Review of Books ), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly…

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    Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond

    In this artful, informative, and delightful (book) ( New York Review of Books ), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly…

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    Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond

    In this artful, informative, and delightful (book) ( New York Review of Books ), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly…

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    Primates: The Road to Self-Sustaining Populations

    Proceedings of a conference held in San Diego,California, June 24-28, 1985. Sponsored by the Morris Animal Foundation Englewood, Colorado, and the Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, California

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    Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball’s Home Run Revolution

    Jared Diamond

    This is the best baseball book I’ve read in years. Swing Kings is a love letter to small people with big ideas. – Sam Walker, author of The Captain Class

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond

    In this Pulitzer Prize winner, Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns.

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)

    Fascinating…. Lays a foundation for understanding human history. -Bill Gates

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    The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

    Jared Diamond

    An illustrated edition of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond’s groundbreaking book, adapted for a new generation of readers

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    Natural Experiments of History

    This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum of approaches; geographically, they include the United…

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    The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

    Jared M Diamond

    Explores the question of what, in less than two percent of human genes, has enabled man to reach incredible heights of achievement, as well as remarkable levels of destruction. Though…

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    Ecology and Evolution of Communities

    Martin Cody,Jared Diamond

    This book contains 18 contributions by leaders in the field of ecology, all associates of Robert MacArthur, whose work has stimulated many recent developments in ecology. These papers offer new…

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    An Analysis of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies

    Riley Quinn

    Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on different continents.

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    An Analysis of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies

    Riley Quinn

    Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on different continents. Drawing on evidence from a diverse range of disciplines, Diamond…

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    Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Based on the Book by Jared Diamond

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know–before or after you read Jared Diamond’s book.

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    The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money

    Steven Drobny

    Hedge fund managers who survived and profited through the 2008 financial crisis share their secrets In light of the colossal losses and amidst the resulting confusion that still lingers, it…

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    An Analysis of Jared M. Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

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    In Collapse, Diamond identifies five factors he believes determine the success or failure of all human societies throughout history. Asking first why societies collapse, he explores various examples of failed…

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    GIS for Science: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, Volume 2

    GIS for Science, Volume 2: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics shows readers how scientists working on the world’s most pressing problems apply geographic information systems-GIS.

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    The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Dispersal, and Biogeography

    Ernst Mayr (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University),Jared M. Diamond (Department of Physiology, Department of Physiology, UCLA Medical Center)

    Ernst Mayr and Jared Diamond decided in 1970 to collaborate on an authoritative monograph presenting their data and interpretations of the evolution of the birds of the Solomon and Bismark…

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    The Biophilia Hypothesis

    This book brings together the views of some of the most creative scientists of our time, each attempting to amplify and refine the concept of biophilia. Contributors to this volume…

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    Terror, The : Season 1-2

    Haunting, Suspenseful and based on True Events

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    Terror, The : Season 1-2

    Haunting, Suspenseful and based on True Events

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