Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Book | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Calvin Chu |
| Cover Art by | John Everett Millais |
| Copyright Holder | Jared Diamond |
| Composition | Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group |
| Manufacturing by | Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group |
| Book Design by | Chris Welch |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | United States |
| Copyright | 1999 |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| First Published In Paperback | 1999 |
| Pages / Font | 494 pages / Sabon, Trajan Bold |
| ISBN 10 | 0-393-31755-2 |
| EAN 5 | 51695 |
| Barcode | 9780393317558 |
| Price | $16.95 USA |
| Price | $24.99 CAN. |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | HM206.D48 1997 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 303.4—dc21 |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 96-37068 |
| Printer's Key | 65 66 67 68 69 70 |
| Chapters | 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 |
| Notes | Printed in the United States of America |
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