What if, in trying to figure out the best way to lead our lives, we could conduct tests on the different methods? According to author Jared Diamond, such trials are already taking place. In his new ...

What if, in trying to figure out the best way to lead our lives, we could conduct tests on the different methods? According to author Jared Diamond, such trials are already taking place. In his new ...

List of tables and figures -- Prologue: At the airport: -- Airport scene -- Why study traditional societies? -- States -- Types of traditional societies -- Approaches, causes, and sources -- Small ...

“The World Until Yesterday” gives the importance of religion in our world the old college try, but religion’s reckoning goes beyond pick axes, computers, analysis of data and hypotheses.

The extended title of Jared Diamond’s latest book promises that we can learn quite a bit from how traditional societies live. Presumably, they live today pretty much as we humans did thousands of ...

"The World Until Yesterday" gives the importance of religion in our world the old college try, but religion's reckoning goes beyond pick axes, computers, analysis of data and hypotheses.