Guns, Germs And Steel (the Million-copy Bestselling History Of Everybody (20th Anniversary Edition))

By (author) Diamond, Jared
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''A book of big questions, and big answers'' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?

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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**

''A book of big questions, and big answers'' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?

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 is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world.

''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

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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
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A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past
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A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale
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This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind
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Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible
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A book of big questions, and big answers
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Monumental and monumentally good
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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
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A book of big questions, and big answers
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One of the best books I''ve reviewed this year.
Biographical note:
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 UntilYesterday. 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.
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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years.