false 3652527 198340 1839 0393061310 9780393061314 184 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959886m/1839.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959886s/1839.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1839.Guns_Germs_and_Steel_The_Fates_of_Human_Societies 4.04 1773 The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years. ]]> 256 3.94 25143 3735 1997 5 16 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 27 10:15:49 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:25:05 -0800 2009
I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist,
Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!"
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him late...more...]]>