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Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies

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Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies

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In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

Author Biography:

Jared Diamond is professor of geography at UCLA and author of the best-selling Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science.
Release date NZ
January 1st, 1999
Author
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Edition
Bound for Schools & Libraries ed.
Illustrations
Illustrations, unspecified
Imprint
Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc.
Pages
480
Publisher
Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc.
Dimensions
155x226x41
ISBN-13
9780613181143
Product ID
12706778

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