Guns, Germs and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies

Name: Guns, Germs and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies
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Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1998

Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.

Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology. Diamond also dissects racial theories of global history, and the resulting work-Guns, Germs and Steel-is a major contribution to our understanding the evolution of human societies.

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“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)

About the Author

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.