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Natural Experiments of History Jared Diamond 9780674060197
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $39.59Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility... -
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.63In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a... -
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this... -
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $33.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316409148Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back... -
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us Diane Ackerman 9780755365012
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is... -
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition by Jared Diamond
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $15.90**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $47.90Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or... -
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.83From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised... -
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $35.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Quill Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143117001Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint... -
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW... -
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality Jared Diamond 9781780226880
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 9780393354324
Booksplease Price: $22.97Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York... -
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond 9781780747484
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262785
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.02'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and... -
An Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Riley Quinn 9781912127979
Booksplease Price: $14.03In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded... -
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Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262747 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $7.62'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and... -
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Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition by Jared Diamond 9780099302780 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.65**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what... -
Swing Kings: The Inside Story Of Baseball's Home Run Revolution by Jared Diamond 9780062872111
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $22.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062872111Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher... -
An Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Riley Quinn 9781912302024
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.35In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded... -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance,... -
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38David Christian, creator of Big History ('My favourite course of all time' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote... -
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.25In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus... -
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World Alice Roberts 9781786090010
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX****'Will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens'. Mail on Sunday **The extraordinary story of the species that became our... -
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America by Kim Heacox 9781493009329
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.05Now in paperback! A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor,... -
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna 9781399810630
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.68'A fabulous book' The Economist'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew Syed'Wonderfully refreshing and thought-provoking' Peter Frankopan'Original,... -
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species by Esther Woolfson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Humans have long believed themselves to be the superior species: we consume other animals for food, experiment on them and slaughter them for sport. But as well as the ethical issues surrounding our... -
Between Light and Storm: Our Lives With Other Species by Esther Woolfson
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.00Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in... -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Professor of Geography Jared Diamond
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124405Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.57From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our... -
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"The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power " by Daniel Yergin
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $40.24Synopsis coming soon.......AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) 1992.Book InformationISBN 9781439110126Author YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon... -
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question,... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe... -
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Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris 9781846682087 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.06In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the... -
Migrants: The Story of Us All Sam Miller 9781408713549
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $21.38Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move.'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable,... -
Migrants: The Story of Us All by Sam Miller 9780349144443
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.07Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable,... -
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The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond 9780099913801 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.77From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our... -
Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Based on the Book by Jared Diamond by Worth Books 9781504046572
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046572Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road... -
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future Ian Morris 9781846682087
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.59In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the... -
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline Darrell Bricker 9781472142979
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a... -
Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe...