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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? 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 syn ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
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 c ...Show more
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
$9.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. This work surveys life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared M. Diamond
$24.99 AUD
$46.99 (46% off)
Category: General Non Fiction
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 unbridgea ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
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