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...

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...

"Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis" von Jared Diamond untersucht, wie verschiedene Länder in der Geschichte mit tiefgreifenden Krisen umgegangen sind und welche Faktoren ihren Erfolg oder Misserfolg dabei beeinflussten....

Reissue of this 1992 winner of the "Science Book Prize". von Diamond, Jared

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...

"Vermächtnis: Was wir von traditionellen Gesellschaften lernen können" ist ein Sachbuch des Autors Jared Diamond, in dem er die Lebensweisen traditioneller Gesellschaften untersucht und analysiert, was moderne Gesellschaften von ihnen...

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native...

"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" ist ein Buch des Geographen und Historikers Jared Diamond, in dem er untersucht, warum einige Gesellschaften im Laufe der Geschichte untergegangen sind, während andere erfolgreich...

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...

Die überwucherten Tempelruinen von Angkor Wat, die zerfallenden Pyramiden der Maya in Yucatan und die rätselhaften Moai-Statuen der Osterinsel - stille Zeugen einstmals blühender Kulturen, aber auch Mahnmale für heutige Gesellschaften....

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME¿s best non-fiction books of all time, the number-one international bestseller Collapse, and most recently The World Until...

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