Diamond, Jared
Guns, Germs, and Steel : A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Jared Diamond - London Vintage Books 2005 - 480 Pages 21x13 cm HB
Include Maps and Index
This book 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 biography, 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
9780099302780
Human beings--Effect of environment on
Civilization
Social evolution
303.4
Guns, Germs, and Steel : A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Jared Diamond - London Vintage Books 2005 - 480 Pages 21x13 cm HB
Include Maps and Index
This book 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 biography, 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
9780099302780
Human beings--Effect of environment on
Civilization
Social evolution
303.4