Jared Diamond

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse....

The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years....

Armas, gérmenes y acero, Premio Pulitzer 1997, cuestiona la prepotente visión occidental del progreso humano y nos ayuda a comprender cómo el mundo moderno y sus desigualdades han llegado a ser como son....

There's no one better qualified than Jared Diamond to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status....

In his million-copy best seller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world....

五つの大陸でなぜ人は異なる発展をとげたのか。
世界の富と力ははぜ現在のように偏在するようになったのか。

新大陸のインカ帝国の大軍勢が、旧大陸から来た少数のスペイン人に征服されたのはなぜか。
強力な武器と強力な病原菌の有無によると言われているが、ではなぜその逆は起こらなかったのか？