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New York, New York, U.S.A. : Viking, Date: 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. The bestselling author of COLLAPSE and GUNS, GERMS, AND STEELsurveys 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? 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 ...

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ISBN10: 0670024813, ISBN13: 9780670024810, [publisher: Viking Adult] Hardcover 1st edition. 498 pages. 10.00x6.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 0670024813, ISBN13: 9780670024810, [publisher: Viking, New York, N.Y.] Hardcover First Edition This work surveys a great range of anthropological literature and integrates it with vivid accounts of a lifetime of the author's visits to highland New Guinea. The accounts carry many lessons for modern societies on everything from child rearing to general health. The book contains photographs, a list for further reading, tables, figures, and an index. This HARDCOVER copy is clean and solid. Jacket is in mylar. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, flat signed on the title page.
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ISBN10: 0670024813, ISBN13: 9780670024810, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover First Edition NYC Viking, 2012. 1st edition, inscribed by author on title age, NF/NF. Book and dust jacket have light edge wear. Illustrated with b & w and color photos. Includes 8 tables, 2 figures, footnotes, further readings and index.A continuation of "Collapse", "Guns, Germs and Steel", this volume contains sections on: Setting the stage by dividing space, peace and war, young and old, danger and response and religion, language and health. Nice copy, 599 p. BP
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ISBN10: 0670024813, ISBN13: 9780670024810, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.89
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ISBN10: 0670024813, ISBN13: 9780670024810, [publisher: Viking, New York] Hardcover First Edition A pristine copy with gray cloth spine on light pink paper boards and copper titles on spine No marks or damage at all The unclipped DJ is also undamaged Inscribed by author on the title page "Best Wished, Jared Diamond" This copy is of gift quality 499 pp.
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Viking, Date: 2012-12-31. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2012. Viking ISBN 0670024813 9780670024810 [US]

ISBN10: 0670024813, ISBN13: 9780670024810, [publisher: Viking, New York] Hardcover First Edition SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Price sticker residue on top of of dust jacket front. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout. Record # 471174
[Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]

New York: Viking Press, Date: 2012. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 499pp. 8vo. Quarter bound paper and cloth over boards, stamped spine. Author has signed his name neatly on the title page. Book has a complete number line from 1-10, is unread, unclipped, unmarked, and has a removeable jacket protector. Spine ends slightly pushed. Author's initials blind stamped on front boards. Removeable Signed sticker on bottom of dj protector at spine heel. Author also wrote "Collapse" and "Guns, Germs, and Steel." Table of Contents shows a Prologue; Part One - Setting theStage by Dividing Space (one chapter); Part Two - Peace and War (three chapters); Part Three - Young and Old (two chapters); Part Four - Danger and Response (two chapters); Part Five - Religion, Language, and Health (three chapters); Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Further Readings; Index; Illustration Credits. Maps by Matt Zebrowski, and color and black and white photographs. 2012. Viking Press ISBN 0670024813 9780670024810 [US]