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2005046953New York: Viking 2005. xiii 575 1p. b/w illus. maps dj. Viking unknown books
20052311160New York: Viking 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Jacket bumped. 2005 Hard Cover. xi 575 pp. "In his million-copy bestseller 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. Now in this brilliant companion volume Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin and what can we learn from their fates As in Guns Germs and Steel Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage climate change rapid population growth and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant illuminating and immensely absorbing Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide Viking hardcover books
2005UDIACOL03jknViking 2005. Very Good. Diamond Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York NY: Viking 2005. 1st edition. 575pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. In protective cover. Viking hardcover books
2005UDIACOL01MELViking 2005. Very Good. Diamond Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York NY: Viking 2005. 1st edition. 575pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Viking hardcover books
20051335107New York: Viking 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; pp 575; black and white pictorial spine with copper black and white text; dust jacket shows light wear to exterior; cloth has minimal wear to exterior; minor wear spine edges; strong boards; text block has light smudges to exterior edges; illustrated; interior clean; tight binding; signed by author. 1335107. FP New Rockville Stock. Viking hardcover books
1997125087New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1997. First edition of Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "best wishes Jared Diamond." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Calvin Chu. Jacket Painting: Sir John Everett Pizarro Seizing Peru 1845. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer. Why did Eurasians conquer displace or decimate Native Americans Australians and Africans instead of the reverse In this groundbreaking book evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles radically based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors arguably responsible for history's broadest patterns. Hailed by Berkeley economic historian Brad DeLong as a "work of complete and total genius" the book won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction Aventis Prize for Best Science Book and was adapted into a National Geographic Society documentary in 2005. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
19971602097U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket. U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
199215078New York: Harper Collins Publishers 1992. First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy warmly and lengthily inscribed by the author to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Plenty of provocative ideas in this grand sweep of evolutionary biology and anthropology: not surprising for this MacArthur ``genius'' Award-winner Natural History columnist and UCLA Medical School physiology professor. With only 1.6 percent difference between the human genome and the genomes of two species of chimps Diamond declares that we should call ourselves the third chimpanzee. "The Third Chimpanzee will endure" Edward O. Wilson Harvard University. Harper Collins Publishers hardcover books
19925524New York: Harper Collins Publishers 1992. First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed and dated by Jared Diamond on the front free endpaper to noted book collector Larry Owens. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "Jared Diamond conducts his fascination study of our behavior and origins with a naturalist's eye and a philosopher's cunning" Diane Ackerman. "The Third Chimpanzee will endure" Edward O. Wilson. Harper Collins Publishers hardcover books
2012190204Viking 2012-12-31. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2012 first edition. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Dust jacket shows mind edgewear and creasing is attached to boards. A few very light smudges to page edge. HB HS Viking hardcover books
197743528New Haven: Yale 1977. First Edition. 8vo pp. xii 214. Appendices notes index. Edges little spotted o/w a nice copy in price-clipped and little soiled dj. An examination of the different career patterns of men and women and interviews with female legislators analyzing several distinctive patterns in their legislative roles. Most of the study focuses on the New England states. Yale unknown books
197710728New Haven: Yale Univ 1977. Review Copy. 8vo pp. 214. Fine in dj. Name on title-page. OP. A Purdue professor Diamond examines the broad contours of sex differences in state legislatures and draws on interviews with female legislators. Yale Univ unknown books
20079010122New York: Oxford University Press 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
1949102814Slim 8vo. Cleveland: Hyacinth Press 1949. Slim 8vo 11 pp. with a frontispiece and 8 plates 7 mounted. Original printed wrappers and spiderweb glassine head of spine bumped and chipped but otherwise a fine copy. Together with the original announcement and two TLSs from the author. § Limited to 100 copies a very scarce and quite lovely collection of bookplates for children or children’s book collectors the second collection of bookplates published by the Hyacinth Press the wrapper bears the title "A Second Garland of Bookplates". The nine bookplates are prefaced by "A Mother's Viewpoint" and "An Artist's Viewpoint." Four of the bookplates are hand colored eight are tipped-in one is printed and one features as the frontispiece and is printed on silver paper. Laid in is the original announcement and two typed letters from the author to a fellow bookplate collector. The booklet was printed by the author and her husband. Hyacinth Press unknown books
196628277NY: Eric Oatman 1966. 64 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributors: Orlovitz Ed Bullins Blazek Dennis Saleh and from San Francisco: Gene Fowler John Oliver Simn Lennart Bruce George Hitchcock Mary Norbert Kore Robert Peterson etc. NY: Eric Oatman unknown books
1995019329Cambridge and London: MIT Press 1995. xiii 178p. dj. MIT Press unknown books
196268584London:: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. First edition. Light foxing on top edge else very good in a very good minor edge wear and age toning dust jacket. . Eyre & Spottiswoode, hardcover books
197332691973. DIAMOND Edwin. THE TIN KAZOO. Television Politics And The News. Cambridge Mass.: The MIT Press 1975. 8vo. green cloth in dust jacket; 269 pages. First Edition. Diamond an MIT professor argues that national television news is not as influencial on the public as originally thought. Signed presentation from Diamond on the front endpaper to a well-known and successful MIT graduate and venture capitalist: "To Kevin Kinsella Best wishes and enjoy. Ed Diamond 10/2/75." Kinsella won two Tony Awards for the Broadway musical "Jersey Boys" and for best musical revival for "Jesus Christ Superstar." Near fine contents clean & tight; little soil top edge; minor edgewear & few tiny tears minor fading spine d/j. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1975957641975. hardcover. Illus. 8vo cloth. MIT Press 1975. very good.<br/><br/> unknown books
197529037Cambridge: MIT Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0262040484 . First edition. Near fine in a near fine small chip at the base of the spine minor edge wear dust jacket. . MIT Press hardcover books
198178442NY:: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0440008263 . Stated first printing. Near fine in a near fine lower corner of front flap is clipped dust jacket. . Delacorte Press, hardcover books
197979005NY:: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 067063557X . First printing. Near fine in a very good one small chip dust jacket. . Viking, hardcover books
197930159New York: Viking Press 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Quarter cloth over boards. Stated first edition of this Grimm's fairy tales as retold and drawn by Donna Diamond. A near fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Lovely copy of a handsome book. Viking Press hardcover books
20191338665London: Routledge 2019. Softcover. Octavo; VG; Paperback; Spine grey with grey red and white print; Cover is clean and bright; Text block clean and tight but for light smudge to fore edge; xiii 253 pages illustrated b&w. 1338665. FP New Rockville Stock. Routledge unknown books
2008276144Washington: Smithsonian 2008. paperback. fine. Profusely illustrated. 4to stiff pictorial wrappers sealed in original shrink wrap. Washington: Arthur M. Sackler/Smithsonian Institution Press 2008. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Smithsonian unknown books
