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Guns, Germs and Steel

(Patterns of Life)

Jared Diamond author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:10th Jan '19

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A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy.

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science.

PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS

Monumental and monumentally good -- William Leith, 4 stars * Scotsman *
A book of big questions, and big answers * Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens *
A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past * Nature *
Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible * Sunday Telegraph *
A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale * Observer *

ISBN: 9781784873639

Dimensions: 178mm x 128mm x 43mm

Weight: 505g

656 pages