wyszukanych pozycji: 21
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The Last Tree on Easter Island
ISBN: 9780141997063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. 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. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through...
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the myst...
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25,18 zł |
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Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
ISBN: 9780062872111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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90,75 zł |
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The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
ISBN: 9781780747484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) An illustrated edition of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond's groundbreaking book, adapted for a new generation of readers
An illustrated edition of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond's groundbreaking book, adapted for a new generation of readers
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65,53 zł |
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Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
ISBN: 9781784873639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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?
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfol...
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65,53 zł |
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Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
ISBN: 9780141977782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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75,62 zł |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
ISBN: 9780393061314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in ...
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134,87 zł |
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Sociedades Comparadas. Un Peque?o Libro Sobre Grandes Temas / Comparing Human Societies
ISBN: 9788466372817 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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57,61 zł |
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
ISBN: 9780143124405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can ...
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88,63 zł |
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
ISBN: 9780141024486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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.
Reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - unt...
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75,62 zł |
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Primates: The Road to Self-Sustaining Populations
ISBN: 9781461293606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 1044 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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...
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 conservat...
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403,47 zł |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
ISBN: 9780393354324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."-Bill Gates
"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."-Bill Gates
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46,25 zł |
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
ISBN: 9780316409148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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88,59 zł |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
ISBN: 9780143117001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In Jared Diamond s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization In Jared Diamond s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population exp... |
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96,34 zł |
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The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
ISBN: 9780099913801 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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 origins.
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, s...
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65,53 zł |
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Natural Experiments of History
ISBN: 9780674060197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has to devise other methods of observing, describing, and explaining the world. In the historical disciplines, a fruitful approach has been to use natural experiments or the comparative method. This book consists of eight comparative studies... Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallma... |
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110,72 zł |
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Armas, Germenes Y Acero / Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
ISBN: 9786073139250 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2016 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... Hace trece mil anos la evolucion de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzo a tomar rumbos diferentes. La domesticacion de los animales y el cultivo ...
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69,17 zł |
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Krise : Wie Nationen scheitern oder sich erneuern
ISBN: 9783100002846 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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116,57 zł |
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
ISBN: 9780099302780 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.
This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of l...
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65,53 zł |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
ISBN: 9780241958681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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? This book deals with these questions.
What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyrami...
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85,71 zł |
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
ISBN: 9780060845506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art -- while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such a divergence between evolutionary cousins? In this fascinating, provocative,... The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are t... |
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77,03 zł |