عنوان

Guns, germs, and steel :

(Number (ISBN

0393317552

Number

b412236

Title Proper

Guns, germs, and steel :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the fates of human societies /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jared Diamond

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

494, [2] pages, [32] pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

"2003 Afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today."--p. 426-440

Text of Note

"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover

Text of Note

Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-471) and index

Text of Note

Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- The future of human history of a science. 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today

0

Civilization-- History

Culture diffusion

Ethnology

Human beings-- Effect of environment on

Social evolution

Civilization-- history

Ethnology

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Diamond, Jared M

Date of Transaction

20050804023147.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

Y