Guns, germs, and steel : (Record no. 237)

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control field OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20250416152406.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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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
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Main Library Main Library 04/16/2025   303.4 DIA 1234567895 04/16/2025 04/16/2025 Book - training