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Maricel E. Presilla

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Barry Lopez

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Guns, Germs and Steel

Guns, Germs and Steel

by Jared Diamond

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

A provocative, Pulitzer Prize-winning survey of why some societies succeed and others fail. Diamond looks at geography, ecology, economics and disease in putting forth his important thesis. An expert on Papua New Guinea, he offers a comparison of Australian Aborigines and Papuans in New Guinea.  (GEN86, $18.95)

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