ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company] Hardcover This hardcover reissue includes a new chapter on Japan. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. The book stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns, beginning 13,000 year ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. This Pulitzer Prize-winning book chronicles the way in which the modern world came tobe. Further Reading, Credits, Index. Illus., b&w photos. 518p.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: W.W. Norton and Company, New York] Hardcover First Edition Fine, unmarked first edition (reissue) of this Pulitzer Prize winning book by Diamond. This book was also the basis for the major PBS special. This copy is clean and unmarked in a clean unclipped jacket. An amazing chronicle of the history of civilization and how we came to where we are now. This edition is a reissue of the original first published in 1997 and includes a new chapter on Japan. .
[Stratford, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc] Hardcover 1st edition. 512 pages. 9.50x7.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York] Hardcover Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 9.30 X 6.10 X 1.80 inches; 528 pages.
[Pomona, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 2005. Hardcover. 0393061310 . Fifteenth Printing. Black and white illustrations. Jared Diamond has written a new chapter for this book originally released in 1997. The new chapter is about Japan, "a leading powerhouse of the modern world, placing it within his analysis of the development of civilization." Ships same or next business day. Book is without major flaws. Dust jacket has minor edge wear. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 528 pages . 2005. W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393061310 9780393061314 [US]

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