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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
33.00 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Non-fiction
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
Swing Kings - The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution by Jared Diamond
38.00 NZD
Category: Sport
The best baseball book I've read in years. -- Sam Walker - An exhilarating story of innovation. -- Ben Reiter - Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball. -- Baseball Prospectus From the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, followin ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. This work surveys life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
40.00 NZD
Category: History
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Science Masters
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause? Human sexuality se ...Show more
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