The release date for the English version of 'Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies' by
Jared Diamond is Jan 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, nationally best-selling narrative of civilization's ascent that simultaneously presents a compelling argument against racial theories of human progress.
Jared Diamond makes a strong case in this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book that the contemporary world was molded by geography and environment. Food-producing societies progressed beyond the hunter-gatherer phase and went on to create writing, technology, governance, and organized religion. They also acquired powerful weapons and harmful pathogens, and they journeyed both on land and at sea to subjugate and destroy preliterate tribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel narrates the creation of the modern world and remarkably demolishes racial ideas of human history, representing a significant advancement in our knowledge of human cultures.
Recipient of the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science