NY: Norton, 1997 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket 0393038912. Pulitzer Prize winner. First printing. Near fine in a near fine (a bit faded along the spine, corner creases to front flap) dust jacket.; 480 pages.

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W W Norton & Co., Inc., Date: 1997. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, 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 ...

ISBN10: 0393038912, ISBN13: 9780393038910, [publisher: W W Norton & Co., Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, 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 ...

W. W. Norton & Company 1997 Book Club Edition. Hard cover Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 480 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. : W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Book Club Edition. SIGNED on ffp--signature only. No marks in book. Signed by Author

ISBN10: 0393038912, ISBN13: 9780393038910, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company] Hardcover Author inscribed inside front. No other marks and near fine condition. ; Signed by Author
[ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

New York, NY W. W. Norton & Company 1997 First edition. Stated First Edtion/1st Printing Hard cover Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Fine/Fine unclipped DJ. Stated 1st Edition/1st Printing. Full number line down to and including 1. Square, tight and unread. From my personal book collection. 480 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Date: 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, roughly clipped with some text affected, bumped at the edges. Quarter yellow buckram with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The true first printing of Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning work that attempts to explain the success of Eurasian and North African civilizations throughout history. 1997. W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393038912 9780393038910 [US]

ISBN10: 0393038912, ISBN13: 9780393038910, [publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc] Hardcover First Edition NF/NF. First edition, first printing. Signed (with brief inscription) by author on title page. 480 pp.
[Austin, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]