The World Until Yesterday
Pocketbok. Penguin Books Ltd. 2013. 499 sidor.
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? is a 2012 popular science book by American intellectual Jared Diamond. It explores what people living in the Western world can learn from traditional societies, including differing approaches to conflict resolution, treatment of the elderly, childcare, the benefits of multilingualism and a lower salt intake.
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. Daily Mail: "A master storyteller of the human race". Times Higher Education:"The world has been waiting for this book".
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.
