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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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!
Armas, gérmenes y acero
mass market paperback, 608 pages
Published May 26, 2020 by Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO.
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- 978-84-663-5525-4Copied ISBN!
Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, Germs and Steel
Hardcover, 588 pages
Spanish language
Published April 30, 2006 by Debate Editorial.
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- 978-84-8306-667-6Copied ISBN!
Guns, Germs,and Steel
Paperback
Published Sept. 23, 2010 by munhaksasangsa.
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- 978-89-7012-724-8Copied ISBN!
Armas, Germes e Aço
Paperback
Published Jan. 1, 2005 by Record.
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- 978-85-01-05600-9Copied ISBN!
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Audio Cassette
English language
Published Aug. 8, 1998 by Audio Scholar.
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- 978-1-879557-54-3Copied ISBN!
Guns, Germs and Steel : (Patterns of the Planet)
656 pages
English language
Published Aug. 31, 2019 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-78487-363-9Copied ISBN!
Armas, ge rmenes y acero
527 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 25, 1998 by Debate.
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- 978-84-8306-120-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 39392126
Guns, Germs, and Steel
528 pages
English language
Published Aug. 31, 1999 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..
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- 978-0-393-06922-8Copied ISBN!
Vete, vapen & virus
444 pages
Swedish language
Published Aug. 31, 2006 by Norstedt.
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- 978-91-1-301630-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 185373431
Guns, Germs and Steel
592 pages
English language
Published Aug. 31, 2013 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-4481-8020-2Copied ISBN!
Guns, Germs, and Steel
528 pages
English language
Published Aug. 31, 2017 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..
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- 978-0-393-60929-5Copied ISBN!
Arm und reich
550 pages
German language
Published Jan. 25, 1999 by Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl..
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- 978-3-596-14539-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76014882
Chʻong, kyun, soe
687 pages
Korean language
Published Nov. 8, 1998 by Munhak Sasangsa.
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- OCLC Number:
- 40601351
Armas, Germenes y Acero / Guns, Germs, and Steel
592 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 31, 2016 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
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