Guns, Germs And Steel. A Short History Of Everybody For The Last 13,000 Years

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 480 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. An Ambitious Synthesis Of History, Biology, Ecology And Linquistics, Guns, Germs And Steel Is One Of The Most Important And Humane Works Of Popular Science.

Publishers Description: Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologists answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.

ISBN: 9780099302780