Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
| Book | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Imprint | Vintage |
| First Published by | Chatto & Windus |
| Copyright Holder | Jared Diamond |
| Printed and Bound by | Bookmarque Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London, England |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| Republished | 1998 |
| This Edition Published | 2005 |
| Pages / Font | 480 pages |
| Printer's Key | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 |
| ISBN | 0099302780 |
| 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 Acknowledgments Further Readings Credits Index |
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