Guns, Germs and Steel

Guns, Germs and Steel

1998 • 480 pages

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This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians

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Civilizations Rise and Fall

Civilizations Rise and Fall is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1991 with contributions by Jared M. Diamond and Jared Diamond.

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Dry. Very dry at times. Overall insightful and educational, however.

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