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Jared Diamond

ISBN10: 0241958687  ISBN13: 9780241958681
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jun 2011
Bringing together evidence from a range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, this title shows how unlike our ancestors we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and... More

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ISBN: 9780099302780 - Guns, Germs and Steel Bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared M Diamond

ISBN10: 0099302780  ISBN13: 9780099302780
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 1998
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 confrontations between less and more advanced people to see... More

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ISBN: 9780099913801 - The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Jared M Diamond

ISBN10: 0099913801  ISBN13: 9780099913801
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 1992
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... More

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ISBN: 9780753801543 - Why is Sex Fun? Why is Sex Fun?
Jared M Diamond

ISBN10: 075380154X  ISBN13: 9780753801543
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Mar 1998
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... More

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ISBN: 9780674060197 - Natural Experiments of History Natural Experiments of History
Jared Diamond, James A Robinson

ISBN10: 0674060199  ISBN13: 9780674060197
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2011
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 book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history... More

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ISBN: 9780393061314 - Guns Germs and Steel Guns Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond

ISBN10: 0393061310  ISBN13: 9780393061314
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Edition: Revised
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Dec 2005
A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering... More

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Jared Diamond

ISBN10: 0140279512  ISBN13: 9780140279511
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jan 2006
Talks about the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for the future. Bringing together evidence from many sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct... More

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ISBN: 9780297818533 - Why is Sex Fun? Why is Sex Fun?
Jared Diamond

ISBN10: 0297818538  ISBN13: 9780297818533
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Jul 1997
Human sexuality seems normal to us, but it is bizarre by the standards of other animals. Diamond arues that our strange sex lives were as crucial to our rise to human status as our large brains. Among the aspects of human sexuality discussed are... More

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ISBN: 9780465031269 - Why is Sex Fun? Why is Sex Fun?
Jared Diamond

ISBN10: 0465031269  ISBN13: 9780465031269
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group Basic Books
Edition: Reissue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Sep 1998
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? There is no more knowledgeable authority than the award-winning author of... More

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ISBN: 9782070434718 - Pourquoi L'Amour Est UN Plaisir Pourquoi L'Amour Est UN Plaisir
Jared Diamond

ISBN10: 2070434710  ISBN13: 9782070434718
Publisher: Gallimard
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Mar 2010