Guns, germs, and steel; the fates of human societies.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Guns, germs, and steel; the fates of human societies.

Diamond, Jared.

W.W. Norton

2005

518 pages

$24.95

Hardcover

HM206

This work was first published in 1997, and it won the Pulitzer Prize. The current edition includes a new chapter on Japan. In this historical, archaeological, and linguistic investigation, Diamond (geography, U. of California at Los Angeles) seeks the root answers to why European societies (and their American ...

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