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Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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"Only possible to read the paperback edition with a powerful magn"
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I can't review this book as I haven't the patience to hold the book in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other for 494 pages.I have never come across a book with a font as small as this.Penquin Vintage should be embarrassed to issue a book in this size font. The one disadvantage of purchasing mail order sight unseen.

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"How much does our life depend on where we are born?"
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Diamond writes a fascination story about why civilization developed stronger and faster in the East and slowly moved westwards.

It covers how we changed from hunter gatherers to farmers and what effect this had on civilization. Also, why the west developed steel and how this affected those societies who didn't.

Once you read this you will want to read Collapse so you should get them both together.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Description

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, 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 one of the most important and humane works of popular science.

Accolades

Winner of Rhone-Poulenc Science Books Prize 1998.
Winner of Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1998.

Author Biography

Jared Diamond is Professor of Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in physiology, he later took up the study of ecology and has made fundamental contributions to both disciplines. He is among the worlds leading zoologists and experts on birds. He has made many trips to the mountains of New Guinea to study their unique birds, rediscovered their long-lost bowerbird, and advises New Guinea governments on conservation. As well as writing technical articles in his many fields of interest, Jared Diamond writes regularly for popular science journals. He is married, and has twin sons.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
April 30th, 1998
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  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
592
Dimensions
129x198x31
ISBN-13
9780099302780
Product ID
1670823

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