Jared Diamond is Professor of Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in physiology, he later took up the study of ecology and has made fundamental contributions to both disciplines. He is among the worlds leading zoologists and experts on birds. He has made many trips to the mountains of New Guinea to study their unique birds, rediscovered their long-lost bowerbird, and advises New Guinea governments on conservation. As well as writing technical articles in his many fields of interest, Jared Diamond writes regularly for popular science journals. He is married, and has twin sons.
发表于2024-05-13
Guns, Germs and Steel 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
书是好书,但这本最大的问题是翻译质量太差了!!也就是获取个基本信息,完全体会不到文字的美。句子又臭又长,一看就是对着英语原句对照过来的,翻译质量太差了。怀疑就是某个老师找了几个学生一人一部分凑出来的。 --
评分http://headsalon.org/archives/1530.html 不知何故,对Jared Diamond那本雄心勃勃的《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》(Guns, Germs, and Steel)一直不抱多大期望,或许是我对畅销书有些偏见吧,但这次显然错了,读过前几章,已让我惊叹:这正是多年来我所期待的那种历史研究啊。 年轻...
评分作为后人,我们总是免不了要对发生过的历史作些“如果”的想象,特别是当这种历史对我们是带有屈辱色彩的历史。比如中国人就常想“如果戊戌变法成功了中国如何”,“没有文化大革命又如何”,同时也会有大量“为什么这样,为什么那样”的问题,如“为什么日本能维新成功,...
评分《人类简史》自出版以来红遍全球。作者赫拉利借用当代人类学、心理学、生物学的研究成果强调:人类的行为,是由其生物属性所决定的,并不断与其创造的文化发生冲突。同时,赫拉利又不断对人类的过去和未来发出先知般的评价和语言,对人类生存状态进行哲学思考。《人类简史》的...
评分图书标签: 历史 人类发展史 人類學 Jared_Diamond civilization 世界史 文化 人类学
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.
作者自己一句话总结:“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.” 这种通过把社会科学提出的高低问题洋洋洒洒地平摊给自然科学的手段,不失为anti-Racism一法。配合同获普利策的另一哈佛人Wilson的《Sociobiology: The New Synthesis》风味更佳。
评分a brilliant account on human evolution - what came together in the right place at the right time
评分略有些翻来覆去讲一样的话的感觉,至少可以砍掉小半本。
评分“到底为什么我们发明了火药却没有发明枪去打欧洲反而在这里坐以待毙?到底为什么当年的四大文明都落得个挨打受穷的命?” -这本书最终试图给一个答案。
评分科学的方法 vs. 复杂的客观
Guns, Germs and Steel 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书