Jared Diamond
Autore di Armi, acciaio e malattie: breve storia del mondo negli ultimi tredicimila anni
Sull'Autore
Jared Mason Diamond is a physiologist, ecologist, and the author of several popular science books. Born in Boston in 1937, Diamond earned his B.A. at Harvard and his Ph.D. from Cambridge. A distinguished teacher and researcher, Diamond is well-known for the columns he contributes to the widely read mostra altro magazines Natural History and Discover. Diamond's book The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal was heralded for its accessibility and for its blending of science and social science. The interdisciplinary Guns, Germs and Steel--Diamond's examination of the relationship between scientific technology and economic disparity--won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Diamond has won a McArthur Foundation Fellowship in addition to several smaller awards for his science and writing. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Jared Diamond
Il mondo fino a ieri: che cosa possiamo imparare dalle società tradizionali? (2012) — Autore — 2,040 copie
The Third Chimpanzee for Young People: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (For Young People Series) (2014) 36 copie
Norse Greenland: A Controlled Experiment in Collapse--A Selection from Collapse (Penguin Tracks) (2012) 7 copie
By Jared M. Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) 2 copie
Race Without Color 1 copia
The Evolution of Dragons 1 copia
Speaking with a Single Tongue 1 copia
Ten Thousand Years of Solitude 1 copia
Building to Code 1 copia
Sex and the Female Agenda 1 copia
How Africa Became Black 1 copia
Dining With Snakes 1 copia
The Return of Cholera 1 copia
Writing Right 1 copia
How to Tame a Wild Plant 1 copia
Playing God at the Zoo 1 copia
Father's Milk 1 copia
Turning A Man 1 copia
Easter's End 1 copia
Empire of Uniformity 1 copia
Why Women Change 1 copia
The Best Way to Sell Sex 1 copia
The Curse of Qwerty 1 copia
The Arrow of Disease 1 copia
Reversal of Fortune 1 copia
Question of Size 1 copia
Vete, vapen & virus : en kort sammanfattning av mnsklighetens historia under de senaste 13 000 ren 1 copia
Den mänskliga apans uppgång och fall en bok om människans historia och kultur i ett biologiskt… 1 copia
(Civilizaciones que surgen y caen 02) Por qué algunas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen 1 copia
Silent Partner (CD) 1 copia
"Easter Islands End" 1 copia
The Red Flag of Optimality 1 copia
Birds of Karkar and Bagabag Islands, New Guinea (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 164, article… (1979) 1 copia
Catherine the Great 1 copia
Living Through the Donner Party 1 copia
Opere correlate
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Collaboratore — 630 copie
I nuovi umanisti: perché (e come) l'arte, la politica, la storia e la filosofia devono tener conto delle moderne… (2003) — Collaboratore — 230 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Diamond, Jared Mason
- Altri nomi
- DIAMOND, Jared Mason
DIAMOND, Jared M.
DIAMOND, Jared - Data di nascita
- 1937-09-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- VS
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Istruzione
- Roxbury Latin School
Harvard University (BA | 1958)
University of Cambridge (PhD | Physiology and Biophysics | 1961) - Attività lavorative
- evolutionary biologist
physiologist
biogeographer
Professor of Physiology
environmentalist
anthropologist (mostra tutto 9)
ornithologist
linguist
science writer - Relazioni
- Cohen, Marie Nabel (wife)
Diamond, Josh (son)
Diamond, Max (son) - Organizzazioni
- American Philosophical Society
World Wildlife Fund
University of California, Los Angeles
The Skeptics Society - Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Lannan Literary Award (1999)
California Book Awards (1998)
Elliott Coues Award (1998)
Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize (1997) (mostra tutto 21)
Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2002)
Randi Award (1994)
Zoological Society of San Diego Conservation Medal (1993)
Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize (1992)
Tanner Lecturer (1992)
Archie Carr Medal (1989)
MacArthur Fellowship (1985)
Franklin L. Burr Award (1979)
Nathaniel Bowditch Prize (1976)
Kaiser Permanente/Golden Apple Teaching Award (1976)
Distinguished Achievement Award, 1975
Distinguished Teaching Award, 1972, 1973
Prize Fellowship, 1961
National Medal of Science (1999)
Kew International Medal, 2012 - Breve biografia
- Jared Diamond, professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles ... began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. [from Guns, Germs, and Steel (2005)]JARED DIAMOND is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until recently he was Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the author of The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?; Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, which also is the winner of Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.
Dr. Diamond is also the author of two other trade books: The Third Chimpanzee, which won The Los Angeles Times Book award for the best science book of 1992 and Britain's 1992 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize; and Why is Sex Fun? (ScienceMasters Series).
Dr. Diamond is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("Genius Award"); research prizes of the American Physiological Society, National Geographic Society, and Zoological Society of San Diego; and many teaching awards and endowed public lectureships. In addition, he has been elected a member of all three of the leading national scientific/academic honorary societies (National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society).
His field experience includes 17 expeditions to New Guinea and neighboring islands, to study ecology and evolution of birds; rediscovery of New Guinea's long-lost goldenfronted bowerbird; other field projects in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. As a conservationist he devised a comprehensive plan, almost all of which was subsequently implemented, for Indonesian New Guinea's national park system; numerous field projects for the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund; founding member of the board of the Society of Conservation Biology; member of the Board of Directors of World Wildlife Fund/USA.
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- Opere
- 76
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- 9
- Utenti
- 45,461
- Popolarità
- #356
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 692
- ISBN
- 388
- Lingue
- 26
- Preferito da
- 168
In ogni caso, il libro è interessante e argomentato abbastanza bene, ripetizioni a parte. In alcuni punti è troppo pedante, ma probabilmente si tratta del modo di scrivere dell'autore.… (altro)