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Guns, Germs, and Steel was first published by W. W. Norton in March 1997. It was published in Great Britain with the title Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years by Vintage in 1998. [34] It was a selection of Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Newbridge Book Club. [35]
1997: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (ISBN 978-0-099-30278-0). Also published with the title Guns, germs and steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years (ISBN 978-0099302780) 2005: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (ISBN 978-0241958681)
My previous book (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies), had applied the comparative method to the opposite problem: the differing rates of buildup of human societies on different continents over the last 13,000 years. In the present book focusing on collapses rather than buildups, I compare many past and present societies that ...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Winner Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works: Finalist Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster: Finalist 1999 John McPhee: Annals of the Former World: Winner Elliott Currie Crime and Punishment in America: Finalist Judith Rich Harris
Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire is a 2009 non-fiction book compiled by editors Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee that features a series of eleven essays from fifteen authors discussing how societies have developed, evolved, and whether they have or have not collapsed throughout history, with a focus on how ancient and ...
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? is a 2012 popular science book by Jared Diamond.It explores what people living in the Western world can learn from traditional societies, including differing approaches to conflict resolution, treatment of the elderly, childcare, the benefits of multilingualism and a lower salt intake.