First published in the United States by W.W.Norton and Company, on March 1 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel was initially subtitled ‘The Fates of Human Societies.’ Within a few months, this subtitle had ...
Jared Diamond was a biologist studying birds in New Guinea in 1972 when a local politician asked him a simple question: Why does the white man have so many possessions while New Guineans have so few?
"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover. Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]. Contents Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up ...
A PBS documentary concerning Jared Diamond's theory on why there is such disparity between those who have advanced technology and those who still live primitively. He argues it is due to the ...
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