ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company] Hardcover First edition with complete number line. Signed very nicely on title page. Underlining in pencil to the first 27 pages or so (one page has three pen marks) but thankfully this uncivilized brute stopped reading after that. Tips of corners show faint wear but book is otherwise quite clean otherwise. Dust jacket has a "A Major PBS Special" sticker on front. Dust jacket has some light edgwear but is otherwise clean and attractive, now protected in an archival cover. Photos on request.
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Date: 2005. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0393061310 . Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 9.30 X 6.10 X 1.80 inches; 528 pages . 2005. W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393061310 9780393061314 [US]

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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 & 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: Norton] Hardcover In seinem bahnbrechenden Buch weist Jared Diamond nach, dass nicht konstitutionelle Unterschiede der Menschen, sondern die klimatischen und geographischen Besonderheiten der verschiedenen Erdteile die Ursache fuer die Verteilung von Armut und Reichtum sind. E.
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ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: Norton] Hardcover In seinem bahnbrechenden Buch weist Jared Diamond nach, dass nicht konstitutionelle Unterschiede der Menschen, sondern die klimatischen und geographischen Besonderheiten der verschiedenen Erdteile die Ursache fuer die Verteilung von Armut und Reichtum sind. E.
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ISBN10: 0393061310, ISBN13: 9780393061314, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York] Hardcover 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
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