Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis? 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

the first of her Irish trilogy

symbolic flower meanings have fascinated readers

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Putin's rise to power

and facing mortality

"A MAGNIFICENTLY HILARIOUS MASTERPIECE OF MONSTER PROPORTIONS

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conjured up heroes and villains

but it is also a brooding Gothic mystery

When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way

one that threatens Gretel's hard-won

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