Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis …
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (previously titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction 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.The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures (for example, by facilitating commerce and trade between different cultures) and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.
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Armi, acciaio e malattie
Paperback, 400 pages
Italian language
Published Oct. 1, 2010 by Einaudi.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Hardcover, 480 pages
English language
Published March 25, 1997 by W.W. Norton & Co..
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- 35792200
Guns, germs, and steel
[videorecording] /, 165 pages
English language
Published May 13, 2005 by National Geographic, Distributed by Warner Home Video.
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- OCLC Number:
- 60813890
Guns, Germs, and Steel
paperback, 528 pages
English language
Published March 7, 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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- 978-0-393-35432-4Copied ISBN!
Guns, germs, and steel
480 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1999 by W.W. Norton & Co..
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- OCLC Number:
- 41076605
Armas, gérmenes y acero
mass market paperback, 608 pages
Published May 26, 2020 by Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO.
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Guns, germs, and steel
518 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2005 by Norton.
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- 978-0-393-06131-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 60820242
De l'inégalité parmi les sociétés
Paperback, 484 pages
French language
Published Nov. 22, 2000 by Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-075351-2Copied ISBN!
Tüfek Mikrop ve Çelik
Paperback, 664 pages
Published Oct. 28, 2018 by Pegasus Yayincilik.
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- 978-605-299-457-3Copied ISBN!
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Audio Cassette
English language
Published Sept. 18, 2000 by Books on Tape.
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- 978-0-7366-5666-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 48684658
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Paperback, 480 pages
Published Nov. 8, 1998 by W.W. Norton.
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Ruzhʹ︠i︡a, mikroby i stalʹ
718 pages
Russian language
Published Jan. 25, 2012 by Astrelʹ, Corpus.
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- 978-5-271-45194-2Copied ISBN!
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- 849910465
Guns, germs, and steel.
64 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2003 by Spark Pub...
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Armas germenes y acero
Paperback
Spanish language
Published June 30, 2004 by Debate Editorial.
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- 55509821
Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, germs and steel (Historia)
Paperback, 589 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 8, 2011 by DeBolsillo.
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- 978-84-8346-326-0Copied ISBN!
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