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Perché gli europei hanno assoggettato gran parte degli altri popoli? Secondo Diamond le diversità culturali affondano le loro radici in diversità geografiche, ecologiche e territoriali sostanzialmente legate al caso. Armato di questa idea, l'autore può lanciarsi in un appassionante giro del mondo, alla ricerca di casi esemplari con i quali illustrare e mettere alla prova le sue teorie. Attingendo alla linguistica...

Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller und Sachbuchklassiker über den Untergang von Zivilisationen - jetzt in der Reihe Fischer Forum Der Untergang beginnt immer gleich: Klimakatastrophen, Raubbau an der Natur, rapides Bevölkerungswachstum, politische Fehleinschätzungen. Warum sind Zivilisationen wie die Mayas und die Wikinger zugrunde gegangen, während andere sich behaupten konnten? Und was wird unserer heutigen Gesellschaft den Todesstoß versetzen? In »Kol...

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In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and talk about the living Earth. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a ...

The best baseball book I've read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball Prospectus From the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a...

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A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, at a time when crises are erupting around the...

With his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of why civilizations rise or fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he explains how some nations successfully recover from crises while adopting selective changes--a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal trauma. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent ...

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In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countries have survived defining upheavals in the recent past - from the forced opening up of Japan and the Soviet invasion of Finland to the Pinochet...

The best baseball book I've read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball Prospectus From the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a...

In a dazzling comparative study, Diamond shows us how seven countries have survived defining upheavals in the recent past – from US Commodore Perry's arrival in Japan to the Soviet invasion of Finland to Pinochet's regime in Chile – through a process of painful self-appraisal and adaptation, and he identifies patterns in the way that these distinct nations recovered from calamity. Looking ahead to the future, Diamond examines whether or not th...

Nach den Bestsellern »Arm und Reich« und »Kollaps« zeigt der Pulitzer-Preisträger Jared Diamond in seinem neuen und bisher persönlichsten Buch, wie Nationen mit den gegenwärtigen Krisen - Klimawandel, soziale Ungleichheit, gesellschaftliche Polarisierung - erfolgreich umgehen können. Sie müssen Krisen bewältigen wie Menschen persönliche Schicksalsschläge! Anhand der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte, Chiles Umgang mit der Diktatur Pinochets, Japa...

For use in schools and libraries only. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. Reissue.

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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 Yesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond¿s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

A un certo punto negli gli ultimi 100.000 anni gli esseri umani hanno cominciato a mostrare caratteristiche e comportamenti particolari, molto diversi rispetto a quelli degli altri animali. In breve tempo i nostri antenati hanno iniziato a sviluppare "strane" abilità, come il linguaggio, l'arte, la religione e poi le biciclette, le astronavi e le armi nucleari. Da dove sono venuti questi cambiamenti? Qual è il nostro posto all'interno del mond...