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Life isn't fair--here's why: Since 1500, Europeans have, for better and worse, called the tune that the world has danced to. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out that way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is certainly not the first to ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relying on scientific fact rather than specious theories of European genetic superiority. Diamond, a professor of physiology at UCLA, suggests that the geography of Eurasia was best suited to farming, the domestication of animals and the free flow of information. The more populous cultures that developed as a result had more complex forms of government and communication--and increased resistance to disease. Finally, fragmented Europe harnessed the power of competitive innovation in ways that China did not. (For example, the Europeans used the Chinese invention of gunpowder to create guns and subjugate the New World.) Diamond's book is complex and a bit overwhelming. But the thesis he methodically puts forth--examining the "positive feedback loop" of farming, then domestication, then population density, then innovation, and on and on--makes sense. Written without bias, Guns, Germs, and Steel is good global history.

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Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
6th ed.
w. col. photos and dual col. maps, 1 pullout map.
Hobby/Freizeit
Gewicht: 249 gr / Abmessungen: 196 mm x 129 mm x 12 mm
Von Robinson, Martin; Zahorchak, Jason

Find your own way in Korea''s buzzing capital, with Lonely Planet''s guide to Seoul. Discover the culture; savour the cuisine; and take your pick of palaces and museums, markets and malls, cafes, bars and clubs. Packed with insider tips, straight-up reviews, comprehensive cultural and historical information, Korean script throughout, grid-referenced maps.

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When a rich Santa Barbara collector acquires a newly discovered Abraham Lincoln document, he asks detective Greg Evarts and UCLA professor Patricia Baldwin to authenticate it. Their research launches them into a dangerous struggle with a secret society formed during Reconstruction. Before they can solve the mystery surrounding the Lincoln manuscript, a shocking murder forces them to run for their lives.
 
As they race across the country, they discover a Civil War secret that could upset the balance of power in North America. Now Evarts and Baldwin must unravel the 150-year-old conspiracy before it?s too late ? and before they are silenced for good.

Kurzbeschreibung

When a rich Santa Barbara collector acquires a newly discovered Abraham Lincoln document, he asks detective Greg Evarts and UCLA professor Patricia Baldwin to authenticate it. Their research launches them into a dangerous struggle with a secret society formed during Reconstruction. Before they can solve the mystery surrounding the Lincoln manuscript, a shocking murder forces them to run for their lives.
 
As they race across the country, they discover a Civil War secret that could upset the balance of power in North America. Now Evarts and Baldwin must unravel the 150-year-old conspiracy before it?s too late ? and before they are silenced for good.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Swayze, Lisa Niemi

Lisa Niemi und Patrick Swayze lernten sich als Teenager in der Tanzschule seiner Mutter kennen. Ihre 34 Jahre währende Ehe war eine einmalige und leidenschaftlichen Partnerschaft. Nun schreibt Lisa Niemi über den Verlust ihres Mannes, seinen Kampf gegen den Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs und über die Trauer, die sein Tod bei ihr ausgelöst hat. Emotional ehrlich und unerschrocken in ihrer Darstellung von Krankheit, Tod und Verlust, ist es auch eine hoffnungsvolle und lebensbejahende Erforschung, der Macht des menschlichen Geistes. Sie zeigt, dass, egal wie dunkel die Aussicht auf einen neuen Tag auch sein mag, die Liebe, die zwei Menschen geteilt haben, nie wirklich stirbt.