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Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
39.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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."I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,00 ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | 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
34.99 NZD
Category: History | 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
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
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 the c ...Show more
The Invisible Hands : Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money by Steven Drobny, Nouriel Roubini, Jared Diamond
27.99 NZD
Category: Business
Timely investment advice from the investors who survived--and thrived--during the economic crisis In light of the colossal losses and ongoing difficulties caused by the financial crisis, it's obvious that the time has come to rethink money management in the broadest of terms. Drastic changes are clearly ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
32.99 NZD
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: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Young Readers ed.) by Jared Diamond
21.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions. * If we share more than 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, how is it that we c ...Show more
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond
24.99 NZD
Category: Science
Pulitzer Prize winning Jared Diamond's first foray into illustrated young adult nonfiction
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today. Over 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, or s ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more
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