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Title: Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion by Jared Diamond ISBN: 1-58663-863-7 Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books-Imports Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Planet Existential
Comment: This book depressed me for weeks. The probable slaughter of all the large docile mammals by Clovis Man in the Americas about 11,000 years ago, then the slaughter of maybe 95% of the decedents of Clovis Man by European germs in the 16th Century, and all of it just so much bad luck! Millions and millions dead, denied, and unknown. The rape of the earth seems to be what the human animal has been about in the aggregate from the start. Look around, the rape is unabated. Good-bye, Sea of Cortez. Good-bye, East Coast fisheries. Good-by, wolf and grizzly. Been nice to know you, but really we just couldn't help ourselves. History, prehistory, read it and weep. Makes me long for the good old days, say 1924 in the highlands of New Guinea, mamma's suckling a piglet, later on we will kill it, and eat it!
Why do I recommend this book? Because the ideas Mr. Diamond so painstakingly presents go from a fundamental and mostly unconscious question, "Why does European culture dominate the world," to a breathtaking overview of the history of humans on the planet. This book has changed the way I think about history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting Explanations
Comment: I listened to the audio version of this book and was fascinated by the content. The author's premise is that there are specific geographic, animal and plant reasons why some countries and contents were able to flourish. Simple things such as whether or not certain continents had animals that could be domesticated. His theories made sense and accounted for why Europe and Asia where able to become so advanced and other continents were not as successful. I have recommended this to a number of friends and they almost all rave about this book and its content.
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Title: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond ISBN: 0393317552 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Third Chimpanzee : The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond ISBN: 0060984031 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared M. Diamond ISBN: 0465031269 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond ISBN: 0465044263 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Devil's Chaplain : Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins ISBN: 0618335404 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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