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Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years (Paperback)
Short Description for Guns, Germs and SteelThis work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 25 April 1998
- Format: Paperback 480 pages
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- Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | Economic History | General & World History | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780099302780 ISBN 10: 0099302780
- Sales rank: 805
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Bang On.
I cannot recommend this book too highly. A magnificent exploration of why and how humanity has developed so diversely over time. Perhaps its most important role is to dispel the myth that some of us are primitive and others developed. A hard belief to shake when confronted with small groups of naked people living in jungles and comparing them to the inhabitants of Tokyo or New York, but this book manages it well. Through its many examples we can see the intelligent and rational responses, that are the hall mark of all humans, to the varied situations and circumstances we find ourselves in. by Jocelyn Willbond
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