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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies
by DIAMOND, JARED
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0393317552
- ISBN 13
- 9780393317558
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About This Item
W. W. Norton, 1997. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Two 8-page sections of illustrations on glossy paper. Cover painting: Sir John Everett Millais, Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru, 1845. A masterful book of unconventional history informed by biology, anthropology, ecology and other sciences and technological developments, starting 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. And it chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. A fascinating book. Clean and bright wrappers with light edge wear; solid, tight and square binding; fore edge of text block has a small spot. Two pages have been dog-eared, otherwise quite clean, no marks of any kind. 480 pages with index. 9.25 x 6 x 1.4 inches. 1997, W. W. Norton, New York.
Synopsis
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.
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- 028953
- Title
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies
- Author
- DIAMOND, JARED
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0393317552
- ISBN 13
- 9780393317558
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- SOCIAL EVOLUTION HISTORY, CIVILIZATION ETHNOLOGY CULTURE DIFFUSION ABORGINAL AUSTRALIANS AFRICA AMERICAS ANIMAL EXTINCTION CLIMATE CHINA DISEASES EURASIA NEW GUINEA NATIVE AMERICANS POLYNESIA WAR
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Wrappers
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- Text Block
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