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Guns, Germs & Steel
Guns Germs Steel
Author: Jared Diamond
From the back cover: This is a brilliantly written, passionate, whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of history on all the continents - a short history of everything about everybody. The origins of empires, religion, writing, crops, and guns are all here. By at last providing a convincing explanation for the differing developments of human societ...  more »
ISBN: 469693
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 480
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Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Guns, Germs and Steel takes an interesting topic, analyze it sporadically, and then never reach a conclusion. The author finds evidence around the world and throws in a few anecdotes but never manages to tie the evidence together. That is left to the reader as if this were a textbook to guide a student to write a paper.

You can make the leap to the answer to the question of why "civilization" proceeded in some parts of the world but not others. You can go on to delve into the philosophical question of the misery civilization has caused. The author leaves that to the reader.

The book seems unfinished.
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This book is unabridged and extremely interesting.


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