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Jared Diamond - GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years - 9780099302780 - 9780099302780

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GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Jared Diamond

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Description for GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Paperback. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? The author puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. Num Pages: 480 pages, 32 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JHMC; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 430.

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**

'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?

Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, 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 a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight ... Read more

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Publisher

Vintage

Format

Paperback

Publication date

1998

Condition

New

Number of Pages

592

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780099302780

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9780099302780

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About Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World UntilYesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, ... Read more

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The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion
The Times
A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past
Nature
A prodigious, convincing work, ... Read more

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