Textbook Discounter: Sciences: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
	Author: Jared M. Diamond Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Category: Book List Price: ~~$17.95~~ Buy Used: $2.98 You Save: $14.97 (83%) New (108) Used (472) Collectible (4) from $2.98 Rating: 1082 reviews Sales Rank: 2494 Media: Paperback Edition: 1 Pages: 480 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3 Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.5 ISBN: 0393317552 Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4 EAN: 9780393317558 ASIN: 0393317552 Publication Date: April 1, 1999 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Editorial Reviews: Amazon.com Review Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years. Product Description Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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 had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed 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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