Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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- ISBN 9780393317558 / 0393317552
- Title Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Author Jared Diamond
- Category History Of Ideas
Anthropology
Human Geography - Format Paperback
- Year 1999
- Pages 480
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Edition 1st
- Language English
- Dimensions 156mm x 36mm x 237mm
In this "artful, informative, and delightful (book)" (“New York Review of Books”), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Photos.
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.
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