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Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.

PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS



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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 *

Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 10 January 2019
      ISBN-13 9781784873639
      978-1784873639
      ISBN-10 1784873632
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      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Social impact of environmental issues History Social and cultural history Politics, Philosophy & Society Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.

      Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.

      PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS



      Trade Review
      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 *

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