Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-22-2009; How to win a Pulitzer.; Apparently, if you can put together a couple of hundred pages arguing all races of people are equal, awards committees all over the globe are going to be tripping over themselves to give you a prize. Jared Diamond, congratulations on...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-14-2009; Mis information aboutr crops; I've read some of the negative reviews and would like to say something about a repeating assertion that the Incas only had two crops, potatos and maize (corn). The Incas cultivated around seventy crops, including grains, beans and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-13-2009; Got this like it shipped from next door; If I made a online purchase my concern would be the shipping.I have some worst exp with shipping but this surprised me.It came to me like shipped from next door and the book was in perfect condition.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-02-2009; Its alright but not the greatest history book; I am reading this book for a college course and its really boring to read the beginning chapter. Slowly, the book mentions about some interesting historical events that happened and goes on to talk about them. I am half way through this...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-22-2009; How to win a Pulitzer.; Apparently, if you can put together a couple of hundred pages arguing all races of people are equal, awards committees all over the globe are going to be tripping over themselves to give you a prize. Jared Diamond, congratulations on...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-14-2009; Mis information aboutr crops; I've read some of the negative reviews and would like to say something about a repeating assertion that the Incas only had two crops, potatos and maize (corn). The Incas cultivated around seventy crops, including grains, beans and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-27-2008; Evil white men make the world a better place for everyone; This poor pampered professor while struggling at his work strolling along a beach in New Guinea is posed the question as to why Eurasian cultures have succeeded with technological developments but others haven't. IN over 300 pages he...; read full review | report as inappropriate