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Jared M. Diamond: The World Until Yesterday

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 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…

Jared M. Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 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.