Guns, Germs, And Steel :: The Fates of Human Societies :: FREE Shipping

• Softcover book by Jared Diamond
• Over 480 pages
• Copyright © 1999 by Jared Diamond

Table of Contents includes:

" Preface to the Paperback Edition

PROLOGUE - YALI's QUESTION

PART ONE - FROM EDEN TO CAJAMARCA

Chapter 1: Up To The Starting Line

Chapter 2: A Natural Experiment of History

Chapter 3: Collision at Cajamarca

PART TWO: THE RISE AND SPREAD OF FOOD PRODUCTION

Chapter 4: Farmer Power

Chapter 5: History's Haves And Have-Nots

Chapter 6: To Farm Or Not To Farm

Chapter 7: How To Make An Almond

Chapter 8: Apples Or Indians

Chapter 9: Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and The Anna Karenina Principle

Chapter 10: Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes

PART THREE: FROM FOOD TO GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock

Chapter 12: Blueprints and Borrowed Letters

Chapter 13: Necessity's Mother

Chapter 14: From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy

PART FOUR: AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE CHAPTERS

Chapter 15: Yali's People

Chapter 16: How China Became Chinese

Chapter 17: Speedboat To Polynesia

Chapter 18: Hemispheres Colliding

Chapter 19: How Africa Became Black

EPILOGUE - THE FUTURE OF HUMAN HISTORY AS A SCIENCE

2003 Afterword: Guns, Germs, and Steel Today

Acknowledgments

Further Readings

Credits

Index "

This book is in good condition but has some stains on the side edges of the pages, mostly visible from the side view.
It looks like there is clear contact paper on the cover for added protection.
No torn or ripped pages.
No other markings or writing.

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