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Guns, Germs and Steel A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Popular Science
By: Jared Diamond(Author)
480 pages, 32 b/w plates, tabs, maps
Publisher: Vintage Classics
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Reissued as part of Vintage's Patterns of the Planet series.

Guns, Germs and Steel
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 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 one of the most important and humane works of popular science.

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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 Until Yesterday. 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.

Popular Science
By: Jared Diamond(Author)
480 pages, 32 b/w plates, tabs, maps
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Media reviews

"Monumental and monumentally good"
– William Leith, 4 stars Scotsman

"A book of big questions, and big answers"
– Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

"A book of remarkable scope [...] One of the most important and readable works on the human past"
Nature

"Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible"
Sunday Telegraph

"A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale"
Observer

"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

"Diamond's sideways-on view of human development may well establish its author as one of the very few scientists to have changed the way we think about history"
Sunday Telegraph

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