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100			_aJared Diamond
245			_aGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Civilizations Rise and Fall #1)
082			_a303.4
250			_a20th Anniversary edition
260			_aNew York _bW. W. Norton & Company _c2017
520			_aWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion-as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war-and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal.
655			_aAnthropology
655			_aHistory
655			_aNonfiction
655			_aScience
655			_aPolitics
655			_aEconomics
655			_aEthnology
655			_aCivilization
655			_aSocial evolution
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