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Guns, Germs and Steel
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A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years.

Winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

About the Author

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World UntilYesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

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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*

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
*Week*

Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible
*Sunday Telegraph*

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