{"product_id":"the-world-until-yesterday-what-can-we-learn-from-traditional-societies-paperback","title":"The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJared Diamond\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCollapse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGuns, Germs and Steel\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel\u003c\/i\u003e, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book.\" Bookpage \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday--in evolutionary time--when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.\u003ci\u003eThe World Until Yesterday\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is Jared Diamond's most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn't romanticize traditional societies--after all, we are shocked by some of their practices--but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, \u003ci\u003eThe World Until Yesterday\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential and fascinating read.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJared Diamond\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan's Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by The Rockefeller University. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eWhy Is Sex Fun?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Third Chimpanzee\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollapse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe World Until Yesterday, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 8.44 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753759277344,"sku":"9780143124405","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/87452ae9be631e9f61bfa370a52e6be3.webp?v=1780026908","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-world-until-yesterday-what-can-we-learn-from-traditional-societies-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}