Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Diamond, Jared
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. reprint. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 518pp., b/w pls., maps, index, Describes the rise and fall of civilisations from an ecological point of view. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Synopsis
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136266
- Title
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Author
- Diamond, Jared
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- octavo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...