Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) - Softcover

Diamond, Jared

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784873632 ISBN 13: 9781784873639

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2019

Synopsis

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

About this title

Review:

"Monumental and monumentally good" (William Leith, 4 stars Scotsman)

"A book of big questions, and big answers" (Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens)

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

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

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

About the Author:

Jared 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 Until Yesterday. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1784873632
• ISBN 13: 9781784873639
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656