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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Paperback, 1998)

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

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.

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.


Format: Paperback | 480 pages

Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.9 x 3.6 | 572g -

Publication Date: 03 Jul 1998

Publisher: Random House

Imprint: Vintage Books

Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom

Language: English

Illustrations note: b&w photos

ISBN10: 0099302780

ISBN13: 9780099302780

 

Condition: Good

A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including minor scuff marks and some creasing along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with tiny creasing, but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.