The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

The World Until Yesterday

What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

By
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond
2012 • 512 pages

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357 books

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Brent Parkey
Giant
Destiny and power
Some luck
Outliers: The Story of Success
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Blood on snow
Midnight sun

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14 books

Abandoned

ilananh
ilana
City of Bones
Sister Citizen
Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment
The Unquiet Dead
The Book of Israela
Yiddish Civilisation
Hiding in Plain Sight The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

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2 books

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Michel Vuijlsteke
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Gardens of the Moon
The Stand
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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43 books

Dnf

Mandler
Chandler
The Call of the Wild
Do Nothing
The Partner
School's Out - Forever
Tarzan of the Apes
Anatomy of a Scandal

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0 books

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EdSantiago
Eduardo SantiagoSupporter
Every Last One
Tomatoland
Goodbye Phone, Hello World
Democracy in America
True Names
Exploring Expect

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3 books

Culture

EdSantiago
Eduardo SantiagoSupporter
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith In Troubled Times
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

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3 books

Evolution

EdSantiago
Eduardo SantiagoSupporter
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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12 books

Abandoned

Pratik
Pratik
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Calm the F*ck Down
The Design of Childhood
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The Future of Another Timeline
Fluke
A Bookshop in Berlin

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398 books

Nonfiction

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Lauren
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The Year of Magical Thinking
Self-Made Man
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Into the Wild

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97 books

International

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Lauren
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
Little Bee
Memoirs of a Geisha
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Joy Luck Club
Bonesetter's Daughter

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Dte

Matt-the_moderately_maladjusted
Matthew
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Foundation
The Gods Themselves
Fahrenheit 451
Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Science

Iain
Iain Bertram
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
The Third Chimpanzee
Subtle is the Lord
Inward bound
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Bad Science

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1st Reference

Diogenes
Diogenes
Shadowstorm
Law of Success, The
Startup CEO
The Aleph and Other Stories
La noche boca arriba y otros relatos
The Beatles Anthology

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Bill Gates

Diogenes
Diogenes
Business Adventures
The Box
The Bully Pulpit
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Rosie Project

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202 books

In The Shelf

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Angel Saiz VelascoSupporter
The Book Thief
The Tunnel
The House of the Spirits
Tres vidas de santos
Armada
Venganza en Sevilla
Romeo and Juliet

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99 books

Non Fiction

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Storyteller
Synaptic Self
The Unfolding of Language
Human
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

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Anthropology

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Nox
Storyteller
The Unfolding of Language
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman

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Little Fires Everywhere
Career of Evil
A me le guardie!
Gourmet 2
A Wild Sheep Chase

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69 books

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Cat
Humankind
Without You, There Is No Us
Modern Romance
Vivere le emozioni: Per capire i disturbi dell'umore e liberarsi dall'ansia
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Representations of the Intellectual

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44 books

Paper

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Cat
La ferocia
Unbuilding Walls: Vom Todesstreifen zum freien Raum / From Death Strip to Freespace
Willy Ronis. Le regole del caso
The Penguin History of New Zealand
D&AD
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Non Fiction

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Ali Ismail
Incognito
Guns, Germs and Steel
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Blink
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

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58 books

Anthropology Civilization Societies

AliIsmail
Ali Ismail
Before the Dawn
Collapse
Lucy
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
Masters of the planet seeking the origins of human singularity
Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans

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519 books

History

MBonus
PB
European History for Dummies
Secret Victory: The Intelligence War that beat the IRA
Mossad
One Minute to Midnight - Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
In Search of the Dark Ages
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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My Library

Nitin
Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind