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The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. The Singing Gorilla: Understanding Animal Intelligence by George Page
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The Pig that Wants to be Eaten bu Julian Baggini
Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut ... a problem.
This month's haul:
Lee: An Abridgement by Douglas Southall Freeman
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
First Footsteps in East Africa by Richard Burton
The Works of Rudyard Kipling
L ... ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee
Both Common Chimps and Bonobos are listed.
Oh, and humans are sometimes called The Third Chimpanzee. OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
This is a toughy. Off the top of my head I'd have to pick:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel by the same dude
1776* by David McCullough
and finally
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
* Picke ... The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond. ... my mind was the equal of Clarke's Civilisation..... (although I'd go along with Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel and/or Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee which I think have both been listed before).
Just so many possibilities!!
... ne
NONFICTION
Collapse
1491
Three Cups of Tea
My Life in France
Omnivore's Dilemma
White Man's Burden
The Third Chimpanzee
Team of Rivals
Post-American World
...
#3 - I really enjoyed Your Inner Fish. I'm going to add that Fortey to my wishlist. Another book I loved reading was The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. It's a mixture of both physical and cultural anthro. ... Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the evolution of bird flight
569 Mammoth: The resurrection of an Ice Age giant
573 The Third Chimpanzee
574 Voyage of the Sanderling
575 The Panda's Thumb
576 The Outer Reaches of Life
577 Where the Wild Things Were (8/29)
578 Return to Wild ... The Third Chimpanzee ... the Fiction vs Non-Fiction, but there have been a few splendid exceptions to that, including the book I just finished, and The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, with a handful of others.
I'm laughing because I own but have yet to read many of the books you folks have mentioned, ... #5 - Oh, I'm a huge Jared Diamond fan, after reading The Third Chimpanzee. I saw Guns, Germs and Steel at my local library the other day. I must remember to nab it soon. Edited to add the rest of the topic: or will they be eating us?
I'm asking because last Summer I read The Third Chimpanzee and Jared Diamond seems to think visiting ETs won't be terribly friendly, especially if they are anything like us. Throughout time, whenever we visited or 'd ... ... sneaky, though - a couple of them I actually started in the last week of last year, but I'm counting them anyway).
1. Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond; interesting, though I didn't agree with everything that he said, (he often criticises other researchers for basing ... Okay, try to limit yourselves to five. LOL
Non-Fiction:
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Micha ... ... i found it quite fascinating. GG&S however was harder for me to get into and I still havent finished it. I read Third Chimpanzee and really liked that. Overall i think he is a decent writer. If you have trouble reading Collapse trying getting the audio book. its like listening to ... ... at Black Dudley.
Guns, Germs, and Steel was one of my favorite books last year. I recently bought Collapse and The Third Chimpansee but I can't fit them into a category for 999. I still hope to read them next year.
I'd like to know how you like Cranford. many years ago I read ... ... it takes place so this one caught my eye—approximately same time period. (On a 3 for 2 table)
Diamond, Jared: The Third Chimpanzee -- because I loved Guns, Germs, and Steel. (also 3 for 2)
Kennedy, John F.: Profiles in Courage 50th Anniversary Edition:--to replace my ... ... BCE the landscape of Classical Greece was discernible.
Edit, because I forgot to give my sources:
Jared Diamond: The Third Chimpanzee and
Robin Lane Fox: The Classical World ... now. I'm a sucker for those evolutionary origin of the species type books, but so far this is my favorite. Even better than The third chimpanzee by jared diamond.
@ message 8: gordon361, that sounds pretty interesting. Maybe that will be my next nonfiction. In The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond has a listing of genocides. It's pretty depressing reading really ... but if you really wanted to get into trouble, you could sort them by religious belief. So, let's see, it looks to me like, ahem, Atheists come out on top (adding Stalin's numbers to the Kh ... ... times! Looks like the USSR killed off, you ready for this... 60 million of it's own people between 1917 and 1959.
*The Third Chimpanzee
Yes, I just read it in another of Diamond's books called The Third Chimpanzee and the 'shrinkage' was due to poor nutrition. They were eating too much starch, not enough protein, not enough vitamins and minerals, etc. If you're interested in human evolution, Jared Diamond wrote an excellent book, The Third Chimpanzee.
I quickly browsed through the above posts. I am surprised that no one recommended Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, or Blin ... A People's History of the United States
The Third Chimpanzee
Fast Food Nation
All non-fiction!
... stands on it own but some material is cannibalized from his earlier book - which does the same with his earlier book third chimpanzee. The difference is each book develops a common idea - Dr Diamond's hobby horse. Details are really what makes collapse worth the reading - each chapter ... ... ry)
My Life in France
Omnivore's Dilemma* (what we eat)
White Man's Burden* (foreign aid to third world nations)
The Third Chimpanzee
Bird of Life, Bird of Death ... rainy night...
Nonfiction:
Collapse
1491
My Life in France
Omnivore's Dilemma
White Man's Burden
The Third Chimpanzee
Bird of Life, Bird of Death
Fiction:
Peace Like a River
The Power of One
Sunshine
... am still about halfway through listening to The know-it-all, and am working my way through Unbowed. Just received The third chimpanzee and The Great Upheaval and am deciding which of those to tackle first. ... books, so it's a decent match, and I'm quite excited. (The other one I requested was the gorilla book, figuring The Third Chimpanzee would give me a decent chance. Oh well, if it gets good reviews here I may pick it up. ... History) The Pine Barrens
G (Geography (General); Atlases; Maps) Sailing Alone Around The World
GN (Anthropology) The Third Chimpanzee
GT (Manners and Customs) Jeans: A Cultural History (Unread, but on the pile)
GV (Recreation; Leisure) When Women Played Hardball
HD (Industries ... ... day.
In addition to Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond also wrote a couple of other great books, Why Sex is Fun and The Third Chimpanzee. (Collapse is good too, but I wouldn't suggest that one without caveat, as it's a little drier than his others.
Most recently I've read and ... A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester and The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond The Monkey-Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
The Blond Baboon by Janwillem Van De Wetering
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. Ballantyne
The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters
Can you guess which is my favorite section of ... ... City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
or, with a different approach:
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Butterfly Net by Amber Frangos
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
It Begins ... ... your view and show that Diamond's thesis, while very valuable and mostly true, is overstated.
I loved Diamond's book The Third Chimpanzee One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Third Chimpanzee
One Thousand And One Arabian Nights
Ten Little Indians ... currently on a kick where I am reading a lot of Essays. Right now I am in the middle of Walden and I have planned to read The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond next
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