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040			_beng _cDLC _dDLC _erda _aSai University Library
082			_222 _a303.4 _bDIA
100	1		_aDiamond, Jared M _eauthor
245			_aGuns, Germs, and Steel : _bThe Fates of Human Societies / _cJared Diamond ; [with a new afterword about the modern world]
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Co. _c1999
264		1	_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Co, _c1999
264		4	_c©1997
300			_a494 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
500			_aGifted by Professor Jamshed Bharucha
500			_aAfterword dated 2003: cf. p. 426.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 442-471) and index.
520	1		_aThis book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren't as you will see, the answers to the question don't involve human racial differences at all. The book's emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible.
586			_aPulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1998.
650		0	_aSocial evolution
650		0	_aCivilization _xHistory
650		0	_aEthnology
650		0	_aHuman beings _xEffect of environment on
650		0	_aCulture diffusion
650		0	_aEvolution (Biology)
651			_aNature _xEffect of human beings on
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