Jared Diamond Lot 3 Guns Germs and Steel / Collapse / The Third Chimpanzee

Description: 3 Booksby Jared Diamond<>The Third Chimpanzee Guns, Germs and SteelCollapse<>This is a lot of three books by Jared Diamond. All are used books in very good condition. All are large paperbacks with uncreased spines. Covers are almost uncreased. There are no marks and no page corner folds.About the books:==========================================================================================================================Additional Information about Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1999, Paperback)SynopsisThis history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might explain why, in the modern period, some groups seem to have significantly greater material wealth than others. The author is an evolutionary biologist and his scientific approach to human history draws on examples from societies all over the world.Publisher's NoteIn this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion-as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war-and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine, is the author of the best-selling and award-winning The Third Chimpanzee. He has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines.Industry Reviews"This is a wonderfully interesting book, especially for historians of the usual liberal arts background, who will find the final chapter 'The Future of the History of Science,' alone worth the price of admission."(03/09/1997)"...[A]n impressive achievement, with nods to the historians, anthropologists, and others who laid the groundwork."(01/15/1997)"[Diamond's] masterful synthesis is a refreshingly unconventional history informed by anthropology, behavioral ecology, linguistics, epidemiology, archeology and technological development."(01/13/1997)"...[A] fascinating and extremely important book....[A] volume no one should leave college without reading."(05/11/1997)Additional Information about Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005, Paperback, Reprint)SynopsisJared Diamond--a modern-day Gibbon with a scientific perspective--has created an instructive study of the decline and fall of civilizations and societies. In GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL, Diamond offered new and insightful reasons for the rise of civilizations; here he studies their fall, or collapse. His case studies include, among others, the once technologically advanced Mayans, the Anasazi in North America, the Easter Island inhabitants, and the Vikings, showing how environment and bad decisions were often factors in their collapse. Diamond believes that the actions of humans can halt or prevent decline, as he shows in the case of modern-day Japan, which has embarked on ambitious reforesting--and, importantly, Jared says the signs are there long before the collapse. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005.Publisher's NoteA study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that were pivotal to their demise. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from Easter Island and the Maya to Viking Greenland and modern Montana, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe?one whose warning signs can be seen in our modern world and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future. Diamond's most influential gift may be his ability to write about geopolitical and environmental systems in ways that don't just educate and provoke, but entertain. The Seattle TimesExtremely persuasive . . . replete with fascinating stories, a treasure trove of historical anecdotes [and] haunting statistics. The Boston GlobeExtraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in [its] ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. The New York Times Book ReviewIndustry Reviews"[A] manifestly important work."Times Literary Supplement - Niles Eldredge (05/13/2005)"[D]ogged, fact-thick empiricism....[A] natural history of societal failure...."New York Review of Books - Clifford Geertz (03/24/2005)"[M]agnificent...extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in [its] ability to relate the digitalized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past...."New York Times Book Review - Gregg Easterbrook (01/30/2005)"Diamond's case studies have a thoroughness appropriate to the moral seriousness of his inquiry."London Review of Books - Partha Dasgupta (05/19/2005)========================================================================================================================== Shipping to U.S. addresses will by Media Mail (upgrade to Priority Mail available upon request and payment of extra cost). 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