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The world until yesterday what can we learn from traditional societies?

Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Diamond, Jared M.
Corporate Authors:	Recorded Books, LLC, Penguin Audio (Firm)
Other Authors:	Green, Dan, 1975- (Narrator)
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2013], p2013.
Edition:	Unabridged, [Recorded Books ed.].
Subjects:	Dani (New Guinean people) > History. Dani (New Guinean people) > Social life and customs. Dani (New Guinean people) > Cultural assimilation. Social evolution. Social change > Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs. Audiobooks.
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Summary:	Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
Item Description:	Compact disc. Title from container. Release date supplied by publisher. Recording originally produced by Penguin Audio, p2013. In container (17 cm.). "With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Physical Description:	15 sound discs (18 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:	9781470339449 1470339447
Author Notes:	JARED DIAMOND is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his many awards are the US National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Wolf Prize for Agriculture, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Rockefeller University's Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, and election to the US National Academy of Sciences. He has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines, plus 400 articles in technical scientific journals. Diamond is the author of the international bestselling books Guns, Germs, and Steel (which has sold over seven million copies), Collapse, The Third Chimpanzee, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval. The many prizes that these books have won include the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction, Britain's Science Book Prize (twice), Japan's Cosmos Prize, the California Book Award (twice), the Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Germany's Science Book of the Year, Japan's Asahi Shimbun Award for best book of the past decade, France's Lire Prize for best science book published in France, and book prizes of Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland.