The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?From the author of No.1 international bestseller Collapse, a mesmerizing portrait of the human past that offers profound lessons for how we can live today |
Contents
List of Tables and Figures | |
SETTING THE STAGE BYDIVIDING | |
Traditional trade items | |
CHAPTER | |
CHAPTER | |
A Longer Chapter About Many Wars | |
Comparisons of childrearing Childbirth Infanticide | |
Cherish Abandon orKill? The elderlyExpectations abouteldercare Why abandonor kill? Usefulness ofold people | |
Dangersof traditional lifeAccidents Vigilance | |
Questionsabout religion | |
Speaking in Many Tongues | |
Howcan we protect languages? CHAPTER 11 SaltSugarFat andSloth Noncommunicable diseases | |
At Another Airport | |
What can welearn? Illustrations | |
Illustration Credits | |
Attitudes towardsdanger Anightvisit Aboat accident Just astick in the groundTaking risks Risksand talkativeness CHAPTER 8 Lions and Other Dangers | |
Other editions - View all
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Jared Diamond Limited preview - 2012 |
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Jared Diamond No preview available - 2013 |
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Jared M. Diamond No preview available - 2012 |