Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Anniversary)

Contributor(s): Diamond, Jared (Author)

ISBN: 9780393354324

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Binding Types:

Paperback

$19.95

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$32.9 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$31.7 (100+ copies: $30.95)

List/retail price:

$19.95

Pub Date: March 7, 2017

Dewey: 303.4

LCCN: 2017301130

Lexile Code: 1440

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.50" H x 9.10" L x 6.10" W ( 1.20 lbs) 528 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000148303 ( Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Anniversary))

Reading level: 12.60

Interest level: UG

Point value: 33.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - New York Times Bestseller - Over Two Million Copies Sold

"One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation" (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.

Brief description: Jared Diamond is professor of geography at UCLA and author of the best-selling Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science.

Review Quotes: Artful, informative, and delightful.... There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject, and that is what Jared Diamond has done.--William H. McNeil "New York Review of Books"

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