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ISBN: 9781565115149

Publication Year: 2001

Format: Compact Disc

Language: English

Book Title: Guns, Germs and Steel : the Fates of Human Societies

Author: Jared M. Diamond

Publisher: Highbridge Company

Genre: History, Social Science

Topic: Civilization, Human Geography, General, Anthropology / General

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Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.

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Guns, Germs and Steel : the Fates of Human Societies

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Jared M. Diamond

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2001

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History, Social Science

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2001

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Gardner, Grover

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by drf227
09 Mar, 2015
Great content, crummy narration
While Jared Diamond is thorough, personable and occasionally funny, the audio adaptation is very bad. With a text this difficult, the listener needs an audio version that will to reinforce the author's meaning. Doug Ordunio does just the opposite. If not for his accent (which is perfect) I would think he was new to the English language. In a book of this size, Ordunio could be forgiven for the occasional mistake (saying "prerequisites" instead of "perquisites" and not knowing that "habitat" and "biome" were being used as synonyms), but he reads many passages as if he's never seen them before. His inflection will indicate that he has completed a sentence only for him to then tack on an additional clause. Throughout the book, he stresses the wrong words: "Francisco Pizarro gave command ... While Jared Diamond is thorough, personable and occasionally funny, the audio adaptation is very bad. With a text this difficult, the listener needs an audio version that will to reinforce the author's meaning. Doug Ordunio does just the opposite. If not for his accent (which is perfect) I would think he was new to the English language. In a book of this size, Ordunio could be forgiven for the occasional mistake (saying "prerequisites" instead of "perquisites" and not knowing that "habitat" and "biome" were being used as synonyms), but he reads many passages as if he's never seen them before. His inflection will indicate that he has completed a sentence only for him to then tack on an additional clause. Throughout the book, he stresses the wrong words: "Francisco Pizarro gave command of the troops to his brother, Juan PIZARRO." "The fertile crescent had plants with large edible seeds but other areas had plants with smaller SEEDS." "In Egypt, signs of crowd diseases date from ten thousand years ago, but in Mesoamerica, they date from about one THOUSAND years ago." (examples are paraphrased but real) In English, when making a comparison of this kind, a speaker stresses the part of the sentence that is different, not the part that is the same. The stressing should have been on "Juan," "smaller" and "one." I had to rewind the recording often to make sure I'd really heard him right. "Wait, did he say a different last name the first time? Did he say 'roots' the first time? Did he say 'hundred' the first time? No? Huh. Then what's he doing?" The entire book is like this.
by gV51_G0USxK@Deleted
08 Mar, 2010
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I bought this to write a book review for a biochemistry course. There is little to do with my subject, but a lot to do with evolution and history. The book is extremely well written and thought provoking. The narrator reads very well and seems to actually understand the subject. It is both entertaining, as a non-fictional book, and informative. I would highly recommend it.
by panaceagal
25 Jan, 2008
Very thought provoking!
Very thought provoking CD (5 CD's) that will keep your interest for hours. I read the book years ago, but enjoyed listening to the CD with friends on a road trip as it was great discussion material. Note that the DVD of this title does not go into as much detail as the CD's or book (still they are okay). I highly recommend this CD. I of course recommend reading the book. Just remember this is one mans theory, but still very interesting.Very thought provoking CD (5 CD's) that will keep your interest for hours. I read the book years ago, but enjoyed listening to the CD with friends on a road trip as it was great discussion material. Note that the DVD of this title does not go into as much detail as the CD's or book (still they are okay). I highly recommend this CD. I of course recommend reading the book. Just remember this is one mans theory, but still very interesting.
by bluedoc810
26 Dec, 2018
Enjoyed listening...great read!
A friend recommended this to me. The content is compelling and interesting.
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by mschnittker
02 Mar, 2009
Really fun to listen to
A brilliant collection of interesting facts. Diamond started as a biologist, but is clearly very interested in cultural anthropology. He is trying to figure out why western civilization is wealthy, while the rest of the planet is much more poor. He persuades the reader that it is not genetics or similar convenient causation, but the abundance of ancient natural resources (domesticatable animals and edible plants). He does not do so great at constantly building an argument, but his collection of factoids are fantastic, and made it a really pleasurable listen.A brilliant collection of interesting facts. Diamond started as a biologist, but is clearly very interested in cultural anthropology. He is trying to figure out why western civilization is wealthy, while the rest of the planet is much more poor. He persuades the reader that it is not genetics or similar convenient causation, but the abundance of ancient natural resources (domesticatable animals and edible plants). He does not do so great at constantly building an argument, but his collection of factoids are fantastic, and made it a really pleasurable listen.

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