The World Until Yesterday
Pocketbok. Penguin Books Ltd. 2013. 499 sidor.
Nära nyskick. The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years - a past that has mostly vanished - and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780141024486
- Titel
- The World Until Yesterday
- Författare
- Jared Diamond
- Förlag
- Penguin Books Ltd.
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Omfång
- 499 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 25 mm
- Vikt
- 404 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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 simply live well? In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms. Drawing on decades of his own fieldwork, Diamond explores how tribal people approach essential human problems, from health and diet to conflict resolution and language, and discovers they have much to teach us.