Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
	List Price:   $16.95 Unit Price:   $13.56 You Save:   $3.39 (20%) ISBN-10:   0393317552 ISBN-13:   9780393317558 Publisher:   W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated Edition:   illustrated Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   January 1999 Pages:   480 Format:   Trade Paper
Subjects
CIVILIZATION_HISTORY ETHNOLOGY HUMAN BEINGS_EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENT ON SOCIAL EVOLUTION CULTURE DIFFUSION
Description/Notes
In this 'artful, informative, & delightful' book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical & environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, & then developed writing, technology, government, & organized religion-as well as nasty germs & potent weapons of war-& adventured on sea & land to conquer & decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, & Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be & stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. 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.