Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody
Jul 2013 · Random House
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**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 into our modern world.
'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 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 into our modern world.
'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
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4.5
139 reviews
James Scott
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July 16, 2017
This book looks at the various groups of "man" and how they shaped the development of the world cultures, power, and dominance. There are many questions answered by this book, but one in particular that seemed clear. There is no superior race of man, there current place of power or status is merely the result of a very long history of access to resources, environment, and geography, and had his adversaries switched places, they would also switch places of outcome and are therfore equal.
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A Google user
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March 27, 2019
I regret I bought this book. Too much fancy terms and linguistis tecniques and too little scientific facts...
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James Clackett
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March 20, 2020
Book pages only go up to 62.. the rest is there but it's impossible to select a chapter to skip to
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About the author
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, among others.
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