Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Condition:Like New but on learning to stomach

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Scott Peck launched his highly successful writing and lecturing career with this book

The speaker contemplates his own existence and struggles between living and a desire to depart

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And whoever controls the spice controls the universe

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Condition:Like New but on learning to stomachExplaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather