Overview
A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy. Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a groundbreaking and humane work of popular science. PATTERNS OF LIFE- SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS
Full Product Details
Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 12.20cm
, Height: 5.00cm
, Length: 17.60cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9781784873639
ISBN 10: 1784873632
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 10 January 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Monumental and monumentally good -- William Leith, 4 stars * Scotsman * A book of big questions, and big answers * Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens * A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past * Nature * Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible * Sunday Telegraph * A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale * Observer *
Monumental and monumentally good -- William Leith, 4 stars * Scotsman * A book of big questions, and big answers * Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens * A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past * Nature * Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible * Sunday Telegraph * A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale * Observer *
Author Information
Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, the number-one international bestseller Collapse, and most recently The World Until Yesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.
