Guns, Germs and Steel
(Patterns of Life)
Published on 10. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-1-78487-363-9 (ISBN)
Description
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.
Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 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 remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.
PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS
Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 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 remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.
PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS
Reviews / Votes
Monumental and monumentally good -- William Leith, 4 stars * Scotsman * A book of big questions, and big answers * Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens * A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past * Nature * Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible * Sunday Telegraph * A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale * Observer * 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 * 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 * Sunday Telegraph * A book of big questions, and big answers -- Yuval Noah Harari * Geographical * This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind -- Yuval Noah Harari * Week *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
504 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78487-363-9 (9781784873639)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
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 Until Yesterday. 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.