Jared Diamond

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science. PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS

Mullistus täydentää Jared Diamondin laajasti vaikuttaneet teokset Tykit, taudit ja Teräs ja Romahdus trilogiaksi. Kaksi edellistä teosta muuttivat käsitykset sivilisaatioiden noususta ja tuhosta. Mullistus pohtii, miksi ja miten jotkin valtiot toipuvat kriisistä, mutta toiset eivät. Diamond vertaa valtiollisen kriisin ratkomista yksilöllisen kriisin hoitamiseen ja selittää. että valtiot yksilöiden tapaan omaksuvat valikoivia muutoksia eli muuttavat kriisiin johtaneita toimintapojaan, mutta eivät muuta kaikkea. Mullistuksen seitsemästä esimerkkimaasta yksi on Suomi. Sen kriisi puhkesi Neuvostoliiton aloitettua talvisodan. Kriiistä toipuminen ja tulevien kriisien estäminen perustui siihen, että Suomi muutti tapaansa toimia Neuvostoliiton kanssa, mutta säilytti itsenäisyytensä.

Hvorfor har Vesten fått dominere verden? De fleste kan enes om at de eurasiske sivilisasjonene har hatt en overlegen teknologi (våpen), motstandskraft mot sykdom (pest) og et enormt forsprang innen samfunnsbygging (stål). Men hvorfor var det vi som fikk denne posisjonen og ikke indianerne eller afrikanerne sør for Sahara? Jared Diamond avviser alle forklaringer som viser til en kulturell, moralsk eller genetisk medfødt overlegenhet. I stedet går han 13 000 år tilbake i tid, tar for seg hvert enkelt kontinent og viser hvordan forskjellene hovedsakelig skyldes geografi, miljø og tilgang på naturressurser. I denne banebrytende boka forklarer Diamond menneskesamfunnenes skjebner på helt nye måter. Våpen, pest og stål er i stand til å forandre din forståelse av verden.

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 hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

Hace trece mil anos la evolucion de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzo a tomar rumbos diferentes. La domesticacion de los animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en China, Mesoamerica y otras zonas geograficas otorgaron una ventaja inicial a los habitantes de esas regiones. Sin embargo, los origenes localizados de la agricultura y la ganaderia son solo parte de la explicacion de los diferentes destinos de los pueblos. Las sociedades que superaron esta fase de cazadores-recolectores se encontraron con mas posibilidades para desarrollar la escritura, la tecnologia o las estructuras politicas; ademas de sobrevivir a germenes nocivos y crear poderosas armas belicas. En este libro, el profesor Jared Diamond demuestra que la diversidad cultural hunde sus raices en las diferencias geograficas, ecologicas y territoriales ligadas a cada caso concreto, y analiza como evoluciono la humanidad y por que unos pueblos avanzaron hacia la civilizacion mientras que otros se quedaron estancados. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history." Bill Gates 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 hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions. If we share more than 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, how is it that we can write, read, talk, build telescopes and bombs, while we put our speechless and bomb-less close relatives in cages and zoos? What can woodpeckers teach us about spacecraft? Is genocide a human invention? Why does extinction matter? Why are we destroying the natural resources on which we depend for survival? What hope is there for future generations? Not only is The Third Chimpanzee a mind-boggling survey of how we came to be, but it is also a plea to the next generation to "make better decisions than their parents and get us out of the mess we're in."

A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.

Vi mennesker deler 98 prosent av genene våre med sjimpansene. Men det er mennesket som dominerer planeten, som har grunnlagt sivilisasjoner og religioner, utviklet avansert vitenskap og skapt kunstverk som tar pusten fra en. Sjimpansene forblir dyr som primært er opptatt av å dekke sine grunnbehov og holde seg i live. Hva er det ved disse to prosentene DNA-forskjell som har skapt et slikt skille til våre evolusjonære tremenninger? I denne fascinerende, provoserende og svært underholdende boka utforsker Jared Diamond hvordan menneskedyret på bemerkelsesverdig kort tid utviklet kapasiteten til å herske over jorda . Og samtidig til å ødelegge den fullstendig. Dette er Jared Diamonds gjennombruddsbok. En bok som ga verden utgangspunkt helt ny forståelse for historie og evolusjonsbiologi. Det er på tide at den kommer på norsk! "The book's provocative style forces one to reflect thoroughly on the puzzle of human evolution.... Written with great wit and a pleasure to read." A New York Times book review

The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions. If we share more than 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, how is it that we can write, read, talk, build telescopes and bombs, while we put our speechless and bomb-less close relatives in cages and zoos? What can woodpeckers teach us about spacecraft? Is genocide a human invention? Why does extinction matter? Why are we destroying the natural resources on which we depend for survival? What hope is there for future generations? Not only is The Third Chimpanzee a mind-boggling survey of how we came to be, but it is also a plea to the next generation to "make better decisions than their parents and get us out of the mess we're in."

" "Fascinerende, klokt og utfordrende" " - Stavanger Aftenblad De fleste av oss tar det moderne livet som en selvfølge, med våre flyreiser og mobiltelefoner, karrierevalg og slankekurer. Men i nesten seks millioner år hadde menneskeheten ingen av disse tingene. Møtene med Amazonas-indianere eller urbolkningen på Ny-Guinea minner oss på at det ikke er lenger siden enn " "i går" " at vi alle var jegere og sankere, og at vi fortsatt lever i kropper som er bedre tilpasset steinalderen enn livet med iPhone. Verden fram til i går gir en slående framstilling av menneskehetens fortid slik den artet seg i millioner av år. I sin mest personlige bok hittil viser Jared Diamond at dagens representanter for denne fortiden kan inspirere oss til å endre livene våre på en rekke områder, enten det gjelder helse, barneoppdragelse, eldreomsorg eller håndtering av risiko og konflikter.

Hedge fund managers who survived and profited through the 2008 financial crisis share their secrets In light of the colossal losses and amidst the resulting confusion that still lingers, it is time to rethink money management in the broadest of terms. Drastic changes still need to be made, and managers who actually made money during 2008 make for a logical starting place. This updated and revised edition of The Invisible Hands provides investors and traders with the latest thinking from some of the best and the most successful players in money management, highlighting the specific risk and return objectives of each, and discussing the evolution of certain styles and beliefs in money management. Divulges how top financial professionals are looking forward by thinking clearly, managing risk, and seeking a new paradigm of profit making opportunities in the post-crisis worldOutlines investments and strategies for the rocky road aheadGives guidance on how traditional investors such as pensions, endowments, foundations and family offices should rethink how they approach asset allocation and portfolio constructionWritten by respected industry expert Steven Drobny Page by page, the professionals found in this book reveal their own approaches to markets, risk, and the broader world in which we live, as well as their advice on how investors should be approaching money management in today's uncertain world.

The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel 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? "As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most 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. 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. This 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, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.

The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver 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. Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, and Collapse, a #1 international bestseller. 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.

Endelig i pocket! Hvorfor blomstrer enkelte samfunn, mens andre kollapser? Hva skjedde med menneskene som skapte statuene på Påskeøya, eller med arkitektene bak Maya-pyramidene? Og hva kommer til å skje med oss? Jared Diamonds Våpen, pest og stål revolusjonerte vår historieforståelse. Nå utforsker han hvordan menneskehetens bruk og misbruk av miljøet kan avsløre sannheten om verdenshistoriens største kollapser, fra Anasazi-indianerne i Nord-Amerika til vikingene på Grønland og vår tids Montana. I Kollaps setter Jared Diamond siste nytt på forskningsfronten i et bredt historisk perspektiv. Resultatet er en pageturner som forklarer fortidens dypeste mysterier samtidig som den gir oss håp for fremtiden. «Diamond argumenterer bedre enn noen annen jeg har lest, for sammenhengen mellom miljøarbeid og fredsarbeid. ...boken om historiens samfunnskollapser er en imponerende intellektuell prestasjon i tillegg til at den er nyttig og underholdende lesning. Der hvor analysene nærmer seg vår egen tid, gir den et uerstattelig bakteppe for moderne økonomi og politikk» Trond Berg Eriksen, Aftenposten «Antagelig den viktigste boka du noen gang vil lese.» TIM FLANNERY, SCIENCE «Dette er årets kjøp! Som et helt college-kurs ledet av en engasjerende og briljant professor – alt til prisen av én bok.» BUSINESSWEEK Se National Geographics serie basert på bestselgeren her

Me ihmiset olemme siirtyneet metsästäjä-keräilijöiden yhteiskunnista moderniin valtioon vain 11 000 vuodessa. Tänä lyhyenä aikana ovat muuttuneet tapamme ratkoa kiistamme, kasvattaa lapsemme, hoitaa vanhuksemme, harjoittaa uskontoamme, ravita itseämme, viestiä keskenämme ja koko joukko muita arkisia ja suuria ihmisen toimintoja. Maailma eiliseen saakka tutkii ihmisen perinteisten yhteiskuntien tapoja hoitaa nämä asiat ja kysyy, oliko jokin aikaisempi ratkaisu kenties parempi kuin nykyinen käytäntömme. Voiko nykyisiä tapojamme hoitaa nämä asiat parantaa omaksumalla joitakin perinteisten yhteiskuntien käytäntöjä. Tykit, taudit ja teräs, Romahdus ja Kolmas simpanssi ovat aikaisemmin suomeksi ilmestyneet Jared Diamondin teokset.

This conference represents the first time in my life when I felt it was a misfor­ tune, rather than a major cause of my happiness, that I do conservation work in New Guinea. Yes, it is true that New Guinea is a fascinating microcosm, it has fascinating birds and people, and it has large expanses of undisturbed rainforest. In the course of my work there, helping the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund set up a comprehensive national park system, I have been able to study animals in areas without any human population. But New Guinea has one serious drawback: it has no primates, except for humans. Thus, I come to this conference on primate conservation as an underprivileged and emotionally deprived observer, rather than as an involved participant. Nevertheless, it is easy for anyone to become interested in primate conserva­ tion. The public cares about primates. More specifically, to state things more realistically, many people care some of the time about some primates. Primates are rivaled only by birds, pandas, and the big cats in their public appeal. For some other groups of animals, the best we can say is that few people care about them, infrequently. For most groups of animals, no one cares about them, ever.

From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times