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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition » (Revised)

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Authors: Jared Diamond
ISBN-13: 9780393061314, ISBN-10: 0393061310
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: Revised

Author Biography: Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is professor of geography at UCLA and author of the best-selling Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science.

Book Synopsis

With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.

	Prologue : Yali's question	13
Pt. 1	From Eden to Cajamarca	33
Ch. 1	Up to the starting line	35
Ch. 2	A natural experiment of history	53
Ch. 3	Collision at Cajamarca	67
Pt. 2	The rise and spread of food production	83
Ch. 4	Farmer power	85
Ch. 5	History's haves and have-nots	93
Ch. 6	To farm or not to farm	104
Ch. 7	How to make an almond	114
Ch. 8	Apples or Indians	131
Ch. 9	Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle	157
Ch. 10	Spacious skies and tilted axes	176
Pt. 3	From food to guns, germs, and steel	193
Ch. 11	Lethal gift of livestock	195
Ch. 12	Blueprints and borrowed letters	215
Ch. 13	Necessity's mother	239
Ch. 14	From egalitarianism to kleptocracy	265
Pt. 4	Around the world in five chapters	293
Ch. 15	Yali's people	295
Ch. 16	How China became Chinese	322
Ch. 17	Speedboat to Polynesia	334
Ch. 18	Hemispheres colliding	354
Ch. 19	How Africa became black	376
	Epilogue : the future of human history as a science	403
	Who are the Japanese?	426
	2003 afterword : guns, germs, and steel today	450