Guns, Germs, and Steel

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SCIENCE
WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD IN SCIENCE
"Fascinating. . . . Lays a foundation for understanding human history."
—Bill Gates
"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. McNeill,
New York^ Review of Booths
"This is a brilliantly written, passionate, whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of history on all the continents—a short history of everything about everybody. The origins of empires, religion, writing, crops, and guns are all here. By at last providing a convincing explanation for the differing developments of human societies on different continents, the book demolishes the grounds for racist theories of history. Its account of how the modern world was formed is full of lessons for our own future. After reading the first two pages, you won't be able to put it down." —Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing... Tovább

Fülszöveg

.-'J
SCIENCE
WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD IN SCIENCE
"Fascinating. . . . Lays a foundation for understanding human history."
—Bill Gates
"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. McNeill,
New York^ Review of Booths
"This is a brilliantly written, passionate, whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of history on all the continents—a short history of everything about everybody. The origins of empires, religion, writing, crops, and guns are all here. By at last providing a convincing explanation for the differing developments of human societies on different continents, the book demolishes the grounds for racist theories of history. Its account of how the modern world was formed is full of lessons for our own future. After reading the first two pages, you won't be able to put it down." —Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing Professor of
Population Studies, Stanford University
"An ambitious, highly important book." —James Shreeve, New Yorl{ Times Boo\ 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
JaRF.I) Diamond is professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine and author of the best-selling and award-winning The Third Chimpanzee. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and has been awarded a 1999 National Medal of Science.
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