Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA, is the author most recently of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. (June 2012)
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‘Why Nations Fail’
August 16, 2012
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What Makes Countries Rich or Poor?
June 7, 2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
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Twilight at Easter
March 25, 2004
The Enigmas of Easter Island
by John Flenley and Paul Bahn
Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island
by Jo Anne Van Tilburg
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Learning from New Guinea
March 11, 2004
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The Religious Success Story
November 7, 2002
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
by David Sloan Wilson
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Living on the Moon
May 23, 2002
Viking Age Iceland
by Jesse L. Byock
The History of Iceland
by Gunnar Karlsson
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection
with a preface by Jane Smiley and an introduction by Robert Kellogg
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Why Did the Vikings Vanish?
April 11, 2002
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
by William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth I. Ward
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The Golden Phonebook
April 13, 2000
Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Translated from the Italian by Mark Seielstad
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‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’
June 26, 1997
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Outcasts of the Islands
March 6, 1997
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
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The Roots of Radicalism
November 14, 1996
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives by Frank J. Sulloway
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Portrait of the Biologist as a Young Man
January 12, 1995
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson