Guns, Germs and Steel :(Patterns of Life) - Patterns of Life
Guns, Germs and Steel :(Patterns of Life) - Patterns of Life
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10 January, 2019
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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.
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More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781784873639 |
| ISBN10 | 1784873632 |
| Number Of Pages | 656 |
| Item Weight | 506 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 177 x 24 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
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 *
A book of big questions, and big answers -- Yuval Noah Harari * Geographical *
This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind -- Yuval Noah Harari * Week *
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Author's Bio
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.