Viking Adult, December 2004. Hardcover. A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 2005. Trade Paperback. In his runaway bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to..... More
Harpercollins, February 1993. Trade Paperback. "Written with wit and a pleasure to read. The book's provocative style forces one to reflect thoroughly on the puzzle of human evolution, and where we came from and where we are going."-- "New York Times Book Review" More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1999. Trade Paperback. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the..... More
Self Published, 2002. Spiral Binding. Sprial bound soft cover; photocopied style one sided printing. Stated first edition. Limited edition of 200 copies. More
Harpercollins, March 2001. Trade Paperback. The groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead's first field work at age 23, establishing Mead's core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in..... More
Univ California State Pr at, September 2002. Trade Paperback. Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a...... More
