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Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Fates of Human Societies
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Publisher's Summary
Pulitzer Prize Winner, General Nonfiction, 1998
In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
What the critics say
"The scope and explanatory power of this book are astounding." (The New Yorker)
"Guns, Germs, and Steel is an artful, informative, and delightful book....There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject." (The New York Review of Books)
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- Brian Thomas
- 2024-07-22
Excellent listen.
i found the book to be well written and read. the topics discussed, while complex, are explained in a manner that is accessible without being diluted. a must read for anyone studying evolutionary biology or social sciences.
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- keek
- 2020-06-01
love it
Amazing amazing amazing book. Most insightful and interesting human history ever written!!
I'm just disappointed I didnt have knowledge about this book earlier
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- Folkie
- 2024-09-12
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Fine, but not too much extra from the 3 part PBS mini-series. I think the mini-series was a bit better.
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- CKH Vancouver
- 2023-12-01
informative, interesting
A good abridgement of the full work. A few bits are slightly dated, but it was well worth the download.
Well narrated
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