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Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
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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
Additional information
| Weight | 0.516 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.9 × 12.8 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 592 |
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| Year Published | 1998-4-30 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099302780 |
| 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. |
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 |
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| Other text | A book of remarkable scope… One of the most important and readable works on the human past |
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