Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
Diamond, Jared M.2019
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This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world's most explosive diversions. Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 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 remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS
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Author:
Diamond, Jared M., author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
ix, 638 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 18 cm.
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Notes:
Patterns of life series.Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1997.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784873639 (pbk)
Dewey class:
303.4909
LC class:
HM626
Language:
English
Subject:
Social evolutionCivilization -- HistoryHuman beings -- Effect of environment onCulture diffusionSocietySociology & anthropologyHistorical geographySocial & cultural anthropologyHistoryPopular scienceSocial impact of environmental issuesSocial & cultural historySociologyBiology, life sciencesApplied ecology
BRN:
2192567
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