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Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jared Diamond
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Series | Patterns of Life |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:656 | Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Popular science Social impact of environmental issues |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781784873639
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Classifications | Dewey:303.4 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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Imprint |
Vintage Classics
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Publication Date |
10 January 2019 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy. 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
Author Biography
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.
ReviewsMonumental 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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