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VIntage Classics: Guns, Germs And Steel: Jared Diamond Paperback – 5 oktober 2017
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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**
'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens
Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?
Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians.
An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world.
'The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion' The Times
- Printlengte480 pagina's
- TaalEngels
- UitgeverBallantine Books
- Publicatiedatum5 oktober 2017
- Afmetingen19.8 x 12.9 x 3.52 cm
- ISBN-100099302780
- ISBN-13978-0099302780
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A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past ― Nature
A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale ― Observer
This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind -- Yuval Noah Harari ― Week
Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible ― Sunday Telegraph
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- Uitgever : Ballantine Books; 1e editie (5 oktober 2017)
- Taal : Engels
- Paperback : 480 pagina's
- ISBN-10 : 0099302780
- ISBN-13 : 978-0099302780
- Afmetingen : 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.52 cm
- Plaats in bestsellerlijst: #2,179 in Boeken (Top 100 in Boeken bekijken)
- #5 in Geografie
- #6 in Antropologie
- #11 in Literaire geschiedenis en kritiek
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The book seems to be premised around the notion of the Great Leap Forward. However three recent discoveries would seem to seriously call into question this notion; Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida; U-Th dating of carbonate crusts has revealed Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art; a bone fragment from Denisova Cave (Russia) shows that it came from an individual who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
I will happily read the rest of the book, when the author reviews his theories in the light of these recent developments.



My chief issue though is the stupidly small font. It was a chore to read frankly and had I opened this before the expiry date for returns I’d have sent it back once I saw the font.
It sounds like a petty thing to mention but when it’s a thick book on a dense topic having it in what seems like 7pt just makes no sense whatsoever. The publisher really ought to know better.

I couldn’t believe how unbelievably small the font was. Literally the lower case h’s are 2mm high, the lower case a’s approx 1.5mm - I kid you not, I actually measured them.
It totally ruined the reading experience for me, as the book is unreadable without the aid of magnifying glass & a box of paracetamol !
Best avoid this edition unless you have the eyesight of a hawk.......