The world according to Jared Diamond.

Jared Diamond, The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee

Is WORLD HISTORY LIKE AN ONION? THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE A SHORT HISTORY OF EVERYbody

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond argues that both geography and the environment played major roles in determining the shape of the modern world. This argument runs counter to the usual theories that cite biology as the crucial factor. Diamond claims that the cultures that were first able to domesticate plants and animals were then able to develop writing skills, as well as mak...

Researchable context of Iran's handicrafts from sociology of art perspective (Case study: carpet)

With the development of academic fields in Iran's handicrafts area and revealing of unbreakable links among social issues and arts, the importance of paying attention to effects of social contexts in the development, variation or stability of Iran's handicrafts factors have been revealed. In the meantime Carpets, as the most important cultural and handicraft product of Iran, have notable rank i...

Jared Diamond Confidential Reflections on Writing, Science, and Life

Sometime after a trip to New Guinea in 1972, perhaps the world’s most noted ornithologist-physiologist-turnedevolutionary biologist and biogeographer set about “the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years.” In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize. The book’s thesis, in short, is that specific geographic...

Confuse: How Jared Diamond Fails to Convince