Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Civilizations Rise and Fall #1) Paperback | Pages: 425 pages

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Original Title:	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
ISBN:	0739467352 (ISBN13: 9780739467350)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Civilizations Rise and Fall #1
Literary Awards:	Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (1998), Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1998), California Book Award for Nonfiction (Gold) (1997), Puddly Award for History (2001)

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"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. 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 a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized 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. 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

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Title	:	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Civilizations Rise and Fall #1)
Author	:	Jared Diamond
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 425 pages
Published	:	2005 by W.W. Norton & Company (first published May 9th 1997)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Science. Anthropology. Sociology

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This is a thought-provoking, deeply interesting, controversial book investigating the reasons behind the bafflingly different rate of development of human societies in different parts of the world. The main thesis of the author is that geographic aspects represent the overwhelming ultimate set of causal factors, and they played out mostly at the very beginning of societal development, mainly in prehistoric times. The author uses very broad brush strokes to develop his main themes, both in

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My first intention reading this book is not to seek knowledge in the real world, but to understand more about the setting/world making of fantasy fiction and science fiction. But this book gave me so much more than that, it gave me answers or some revelations about some of my personal thinking all these years.I cannot comment much about the contents, there are a lot of reviews that describe the contents well.Some interesting points on this book for me:1. In my opinion, this book has pristine

Misleading! The actual title should be Germs, More Germs and a bit about Steel And Guns, but not very much on those last two really...I mean, we want to put Guns first because it's more attention-grabbing than Germs, but let's face it, this book is mostly about Germs. Why has no publishing house knocked down my door trying to obtain my book titling services yet?!

In short, Europes colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeographyin particular, to the continents different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate. - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and SteelThis is one of those books that

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