Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book,Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography,not race,moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans,Asians,Native Americans,sub-Saharan Africans,and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history,biology,ecology and linguistics,Guns,Germs and Steel remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784873639Number of pages: 656Weight: 500 gDimensions: 176 x 122 x 50 mm
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Monumental and monumentally goodA book of big questions,and big answersA book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human pastFascinating,coherent,compassionate and completely accessibleA prodigious,convincing work,conceived on a grand scale
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