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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]
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 ...
The idea for creating Questioning Collapse came about during a 2006 meeting at the American Anthropological Association that was specially organized to determine how to respond to the claims made in Diamond's books, particularly Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel, and how to do so while explaining to the general public how society has actually progressed throughout history and led to our ...
The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. [2] Diamond uses this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a great number of factors can render a species undomesticable.
The PBS documentary is mentioned in the lead. While this could use expantion, I don't think it is necessary in this article. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:39, 6 November 2005 (UTC) The title of the article suggests that the subject is the book.
This four-part documentary peels back the Duggars' wholesome reality TV facade to explore the infamous family’s connections to the Institute in Basic Life Principles, an ultraconservative ...
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died Thursday after Alec Baldwin fired a loaded weapon that was handed to him by an assistant director who mistakenly believed it was safe to use on the New Mexico ...