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Last Sunday I had a review of Jared Diamond&#8217;s new book, <em>The World Until Yesterday<\/em>, in the Dallas Morning News, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/entertainment\/books\/20130125-book-review-the-world-until-yesterday-what-can-we-learn-from-traditional-societies-by-jared-diamond.ece\">here<\/a>. As readers of this blog would probably notice, I&#8217;m a fan of Diamond&#8217;s work, my favorite still being <em>Collapse<\/em>, though <em>Guns, Germs, and Steel<\/em> is probably still his most popular. <em>The World Until Yesterday<\/em> is a different beast altogether, more academic than the other two, although perhaps more daring in its comparisons.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1708\" title=\"BOOK_REVIEW_THE_WORLD_UNTIL_YESTERDAY_28978703\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BOOK_REVIEW_THE_WORLD_UNTIL_YESTERDAY_28978703.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after a flu relapse that made me resemble one of those dudes on The Walking Dead, I&#8217;m struggling to maintain an upright position, and get back on with the business of the Living. 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