{"product_id":"9780141024486-the-world-until-yesterday","title":"The World Until Yesterday","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?\u003cbr\u003eReveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history in evolutionary terms. This book explores how tribal people approach essential human problems, from health and diet to conflict resolution and language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe no. 1 bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCollapse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGuns, Germs and Steel\u003c\/i\u003e explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well? In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond 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. Drawing on decades of his own fieldwork, Diamond explores how tribal people approach essential human problems, from health and diet to conflict resolution and language, and discovers they have much to teach us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJared Diamond \u003c\/b\u003eis the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller \u003ci\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, and \u003ci\u003eCollapse\u003c\/i\u003e,  a #1 international bestseller. A professor of geography at UCLA and  noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of  anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451392995702,"sku":"9780141024486","price":14.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32397962.jpg?v=1760462306","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141024486-the-world-until-yesterday","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}