Guns, germs and steel :
Diamond, Jared M.,
Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years / Jared Diamond. - London : Vintage, 2005. - 480 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Originally published: Great Britain: Chatto & Windus, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world's most explosive diversions.
0099302780 (paperback) 9780099302780 (paperback)
Civilization--History.
Culture diffusion.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Social evolution.
HM206 / .D53 2005
Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years / Jared Diamond. - London : Vintage, 2005. - 480 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Originally published: Great Britain: Chatto & Windus, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world's most explosive diversions.
0099302780 (paperback) 9780099302780 (paperback)
Civilization--History.
Culture diffusion.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Social evolution.
HM206 / .D53 2005