Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: science, masters, sexuality, human, fun, evolution, sex
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0465031269
ISBN-13: 9780465031269

Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? There is no more knowledgeable authority than the award-winning author of THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE to answer these intriguing questions. Here is a delightfully entertaining and enlightening look at the unique sex lives of humans.

Author: Jared M. Diamond
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: human, societies, fates, steel, germs, guns
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0393317552
ISBN-13: 9780393317558

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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 mode

Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Keywords: audiobook, steel, germs, guns
Published: 2001-08-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1565115147
ISBN-13: 9781565115149

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world’s peoples, a unified narrative of human life.

Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: succeed, choose, societies, collapse
Number of Pages: 575
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0143036556
ISBN-13: 9780143036555

Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues,

Author: Jared M. Diamond
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: human, future, evolution, chimpanzee, third
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060845503
ISBN-13: 9780060845506

Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight." The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond’s prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines "the fates of human societies," this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a few million years ago. Diamond writes: It’s obvious that humans are unlike all animals. ItR

Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: human, societies, fates, steel, germs, guns
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2005-07-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0393061310
ISBN-13: 9780393061314

Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist’s answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done f

Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: revised, succeed, choose, societies, collapse
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2011-01-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0143117009
ISBN-13: 9780143117001

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 fall into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from Easter Island and the Maya to Viking Greenland and modern Montana, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe—one whose warning signs can be seen in our modern world and that we i