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03090cam a2200385Ka 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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ocm51882461 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250416152406.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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030319t20031999nyuabf b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
| International Standard Book Number |
9780393317558 (pbk.) : |
| Terms of availability |
$18.95 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
| International Standard Book Number |
0393317552 (pbk.) : |
| Terms of availability |
$18.95 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
| System control number |
(Sirsi) o51882461 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
| Original cataloging agency |
XSQ |
| Transcribing agency |
XSQ |
| Modifying agency |
TnLvILS-blh |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
| Holding library |
KKAA |
| 050 14 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
| Classification number |
HM206 |
| Item number |
D48 2003 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
| Classification number |
303.4 |
| Edition number |
21 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
| Personal name |
Diamond, Jared M. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
| Title |
Guns, germs, and steel : |
| Remainder of title |
the fates of human societies / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Jared Diamond. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
W.W. Norton, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
[2003], c1999. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
| Extent |
494, [2] p., [32] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
| General note |
"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
| General note |
Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-471) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
| Formatted contents note |
Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- The future of human history of a science. 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today. |
| 521 8# - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE |
| Target audience note |
1440 L |
| Source |
Lexile |
| 526 0# - STUDY PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTE |
| Program name |
Accelerated Reader |
| Interest level |
Grades 9-12 |
| Reading level |
12.6 |
| Title point value |
33 |
| Public note |
Quiz 148303 |
| -- |
English non-fiction. |
| 586 ## - AWARDS NOTE |
| Awards note |
Pulitzer Prize for General NonFiction, 1998. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Social evolution. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Civilization |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Ethnology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Human beings |
| General subdivision |
Effect of environment on. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Culture diffusion. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book - training |
| 949 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
| a |
303.4 D53G 2003 |
| m |
KC-CENTRAL |
| 998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) |
| Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) |
29 |
| First Date, FD (RLIN) |
29 |