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Guns, germs, and steel the fates of human societies

Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and dismantles racially based theories of human history.

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  • "Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies"@tr
  • "人类社会的命运"
  • "Zwaarden paarden & ziektekiemen"
  • "Fates of human societies"
  • "Ren lei she hui de ming yun"
  • "Ichiman-sanzennen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo"
  • "Guns,germs,and steel"@ja
  • "Zwaarden, paarden & ziektekiemen"
  • "一万三〇〇〇年にわたる人類史の謎"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel"
  • "İnsan topluluklarının yazgıları"
  • "İnsan topluluklarının yazgıları"@tr
  • "Guns, germs and steel"
  • "İnsan topluluklarını yazgıları"

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  • "Historical study on the role of geographical and environmental factors in the rise and fall of societies."
  • "Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and dismantles racially based theories of human history."@en
  • "National Best Seller, by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Jared Diamond, attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? The book's emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible."@en
  • "Beschrijving van de geschiedenis van de mensheid, uitgaande van de opvatting dat het natuurlijk milieu de verschillen in ontwikkeling en beschaving heeft bepaald en met veel aandacht voor niet-westerse culturen."
  • "This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world's most explosive diversions."
  • "Discusses the theories of human history by revealing how environmental factors can be responsible for history's broadest patterns of the human condition."@en
  • "Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide. The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. Thirty-two illustrations."
  • "Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns."@en
  • "Traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development while others continue to evolve."@en
  • "Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom."@en
  • "Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom."
  • "The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns."

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  • "History"@tr
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Nonfiction"@en

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  • "Guns Germs and Steel: The fates of human societies"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel the fates of human societies"@en
  • "Guns, germs, and steel the fates of human societies"
  • "Tüfek, mikrop ve çelik : İnsan topluluklarının yazgıları"
  • "Tüfek, mikrop ve çelik : İnsan topluluklarının yazgıları"@tr
  • "Tüfek, mikrop ve çelik: insan topluluklarının yazgıları"@tr
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu : ichiman sanzennen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo. 003"@ja
  • "枪炮、病菌与钢铁 : 人类社会的命运 = Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel"@en
  • "Guns, germs and steel"
  • "Jū, byōgenkin, tetsu : 1-man 3000-nen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄 : 一万三〇〇〇年にわたる人類史の謎"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu : ichimansanzennen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo 2"
  • "Ju byogenkin tetsu. 1"@ja
  • "Guns, Germs and Steel"@en
  • "Guns, germs and steel : the fates of human societies"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄 : 一万三〇〇〇年にわたる人類史の謎. 下卷"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies"@en
  • "Guns, germs, and steel [sound recording] : the fates of human societies"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu : ichiman sanzennen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo. 001"@ja
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu"
  • "Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the las"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄. 上卷 : 一万三〇〇〇年にわたる人類史の謎"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄. 下卷 : 一万三〇〇〇年にわたる人類史の謎"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄 : 一万三000年にわたる人類史の謎"
  • "Guns, Germs, and Steel"@en
  • "Qiang pao, bing jun yu gang tie : ren lei she hui de ming yun = Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies"
  • "Jū, byōgenkin, tetsu : ichiman-sanzennen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13'000 years"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu. 1 : ichi man sanzen nen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo"
  • "Zwaarden, paarden en ziektekiemen : de ongelijkheid in de wereld verklaard"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄. 上"
  • "Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13.000 years"
  • "Guns, germs and steel a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years"@en
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄. 下卷"
  • "Ju byogenkin tetsu. 2"@ja
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu : Ichiman sanzennen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo. 3"@ja
  • "Guns, germs and steel : a short story of everybody for the last 13,000 years"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄 : 一万三〇〇〇年にわたる人類史の謎上卷"
  • "Zwaarden, paarden en ziektekiemen : waarom Europeanen en Aziaten de wereld domineren"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄 : 一万三〇〇〇年にわたる人類史の謎. 上卷"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄. 上卷"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : The fates of human societies"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu. 003"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu. 003"@ja
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄 : 一万三〇〇〇年にわたる人類史の謎下卷"
  • "Guns, Germs and Steel : the Fates of Human Societies"@en
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu : ichimansanzennen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo 1"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu. 2 : ichi man sanzen nen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years"@en
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years"
  • "Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years"@es
  • "Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years"@en
  • "Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years"
  • "Tüfek, mikrop ve çelik"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu : Ichiman sanzennen ni wataru jinruishi no nazo. 1"@ja
  • "Ju byogenkin tetsu : ichimansanzennen niwataru jinruishi no nazo"
  • "Bandūqen̲, jarās̲īm aur faulād"
  • "銃・病原菌・鉄. 下"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu. 001"
  • "Jū byōgenkin tetsu. 001"@ja
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human society"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human society"@en
  • "Tüfek, mikrop ve çelik : insan topluluklarının yazgıları"
  • "Guns, Germs, and Steel The Fates of Human Societies"@en
  • "Gun, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13.000 years"
  • "Guns, germs, and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13.000 years"

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