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Loading... Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared Diamond
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Member recommendations:rakerman recommends Stolen continents : five hundered years of conquest and resistance in the Americas by Ronald Wright, "Also see Ronald Wright's Stolen Continents for another angle on the Americas." fyrefly98 recommends Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn, "Another perspective on the spread of our culture and civilization." infiniteletters recommends Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond MusicMom41 recommends From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun, "Guns, Germs and Steel makes a great “prelude’ to Barzun’s book From Dawn to Decadence." fleela recommends Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond ( see more recommendations and anti-recommendations for this book )
Amazon.com (ISBN 0393061310, Hardcover)Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:58:10 -0500) |
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