Read 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?...

\"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 YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understan...

James Diamond's new book consists of a series of studies addressing Moses Maimonides' (1138-1204) appropriation of marginal figures-lepers, converts, heretics, and others-normally considered on the fringes of society and religion....

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible....

Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well?...

Die überwucherten Tempelruinen von Angkor Wat, die zerfallenden Pyramiden der Maya in Yucatan und die rätselhaften Moai-Statuen der Osterinsel - sie alle sind stille Zeugen von einstmals blühenden Kulturen, die irgendwann......

Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past....

Diamond, a consummate teacher of the Bible, provides a clear and simple (but not simplistic) method for reading and understanding the weekly Torah portions. This is a how-to book, not an interpretive one....

With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller?over 1.5 million copies sold?is now a major PBS special. Winner 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 displacing their peoples....

This book offers readers all of the latest developments in retail buying to reflect the current retail market. Using a practical approach that emphasizes the major aspects of retail buying, this book provides the fundamental information new buyers need to accurately forecast and fulfill their customers\' merchandise requirements....

Traditionally, economics training in public finances has focused more on tax than expenditure issues, and within expenditure, more on policy considerations than the more mundane matters of public expenditure management....

INTRODUCTION TO THE INDUSTRY The Nature and Scope of the Industry Careers THE INDUSTRY\'S MAJOR COMPONENTS Fashion Designers: From Inspiration to Creation Manufacturers: Production and Distribution Retailers of Fashion Fashion Advertisers and Promoters THE MATERIALS OF FASHION Textiles Leathers Furs Metals and Stones APPAREL CLASSIFICATIONS Women\'...

Appropriate for Product or Market Knowledge courses in Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising programs....

In this major statement on art and healing, Dr. John Diamond reveals his unique approach. At its root are the twin concepts of Guidance that everything we do, including all creativity, is guided from the Spirit World and matrophilia, the love of the mother, the ultimate basis of all health....