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050	1	4	_aHM206 _bD48 2003
082	0	4	_a303.4 _221
100	1		_aDiamond, Jared M.
245	1	0	_aGuns, germs, and steel : _bthe fates of human societies / _cJared Diamond.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton, _c[2003], c1999.
300			_a494, [2] p., [32] p. of plates : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
500			_a"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover.
500			_aIncludes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496].
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 442-471) and index.
505	0		_aYali'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		_a1440 L _bLexile
526	0		_aAccelerated Reader _bGrades 9-12 _c12.6 _d33 _zQuiz 148303 _zEnglish non-fiction.
586			_aPulitzer Prize for General NonFiction, 1998.
650		0	_aSocial evolution.
650		0	_aCivilization _xHistory.
650		0	_aEthnology.
650		0	_aHuman beings _xEffect of environment on.
650		0	_aCulture diffusion.
942			_2ddc _cBKTMP
949			_a303.4 D53G 2003 _mKC-CENTRAL
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