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The World Until Yesterday Paperback - 2012
by Diamond, Jared
- New
- Paperback
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- Title The World Until Yesterday
- Author Diamond, Jared
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later printing
- Condition New
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin, New York
- Date 2012
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 59121
- ISBN 9780143124405 / 0143124404
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.48 x 1.18 in (21.44 x 13.92 x 3.00 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Papua New Guinea - Social life and customs, Social change - Papua New Guinea
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.899
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Summary
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 yesterdayin evolutionary timewhen 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 yearsa past that has mostly vanishedand 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 societiesafter all, we are shocked by some of their practicesbut 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.
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- New York Times Book Review, 12/01/2013, Page 32