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Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel (CD)
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- Publication Name
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Title
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Subtitle
- The Fates of Human Societies
- Contributor
- Doug Ordunio (Read by)
- ISBN-10
- 0307932427
- EAN
- 9780307932426
- ISBN
- 9780307932426
- Release Year
- 2011
- Release Date
- 07/06/2011
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 149mm
- Item Length
- 128mm
- Item Width
- 40mm
- Item Weight
- 349g
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Guns, Germs, and Steel : the Fates of Human Societies
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Civilization, Human Geography, Anthropology / General
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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the paths of development of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start. Only societies that advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage acquired a potential for developing writing, technology, government, and organized religions--as well as those nasty germs and potent weapons of war. It was those societies, that expanded to new homelands at the expense of other peoples. The most familiar examples involve the conquest of non-European peoples by Europeans in the last 500 years, beginning with voyages in search of precious metals and spices, and often leading to invasion of native lands and decimation of native inhabitants.
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307932427
ISBN-13
9780307932426
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99580227
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Book Title
Guns, Germs, and Steel : the Fates of Human Societies
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, Human Geography, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History, Social Science
Dimensions
Item Length
5.8in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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Number of Volumes
13 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
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Artful, informative, and delightful.... There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject, and that is what Jared Diamond has done. -- William H. McNeil (New York Review of Books) An ambitious, highly important book. -- James Shreeve (New York Times Book Review) A book of remarkable scope, a history of the world in less than 500 pages which succeeds admirably, where so many others have failed, in analyzing some of the basic workings of culture process.... One of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years. -- Colin Renfrew (Nature) The scope and the explanatory power of this book are astounding. -- The New Yorker No scientist brings more experience from the laboratory and field, none thinks more deeply about social issues or addresses them with greater clarity, than Jared Diamond as illustrated by Guns, Germs, and Steel. In this remarkably readable book he shows how history and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper understanding of the human condition. -- Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns, Germs, and Steel] must be added to their select number. . . . Diamond meshes technological mastery with historical sweep, anecdotal delight with broad conceptual vision, and command of sources with creative leaps. No finer work of its kind has been published this year, or for many past. -- Martin Sieff (Washington Times) [Diamond] is broadly erudite, writes in a style that pleasantly expresses scientific concepts in vernacular American English, and deals almost exclusively in questions that should interest everyone concerned about how humanity has developed. . . . [He] has done us all a great favor by supplying a rock-solid alternative to the racist answer. . . . A wonderfully interesting book. -- Alfred W. Crosby (Los Angeles Times) An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority. -- Thomas M. Disch (The New Leader)
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Dewey Decimal
303.4
Dewey Edition
22
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