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Product details of Guns, Germs And Steel - Jared Diamond

Paperback: 496 pages

Publisher: RHUK (30 April 1998)

Language: English

ASIN: 0099302780

Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 3.1 x 19.8 cm

Review"The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion" (The Times)

"A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past" (Nature)

"A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale" (Observer)

"This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind" (Yuval Noah Harari Week)

"Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible" (Sunday Telegraph)

Book Description'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years; now with a new afterword to mark the 20th anniversary of publication

About the AuthorJared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World UntilYesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.