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    a| 9780393061314 (hbk.)
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    a| 303.4 b| DIA 2005
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    a| Diamond, Jared M.
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    a| Guns, germs, and steel : b| the fates of human societies / c| Jared Diamond.
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    a| Fates of human societies.
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    a| New York, NY : b| W. W. Norton & Co., c| c2005.
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    a| 518, [32] p. of plates : b| ill., maps ; c| 24 cm.
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    a| "With a new chapter on Japan"--Jacket.
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    a| Previous ed.: 2003.
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    a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 466--496) and index.
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    a| "A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be."--BOOK JACKET.
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    a| Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, 1998.
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    a| Social evolution.
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    a| Civilization x| History.
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    a| Ethnology.
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    a| Human beings x| Effect of environment on.
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    a| Culture diffusion.
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    a| (HK-SYU)500819707 9| ExL
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    t| Prologue : Yali's question p| 13
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    l| Pt. 1 t| From Eden to Cajamarca p| 33
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    l| Ch. 1 t| Up to the starting line p| 35
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    l| Ch. 2 t| A natural experiment of history p| 53
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    l| Ch. 3 t| Collision at Cajamarca p| 67
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    l| Pt. 2 t| The rise and spread of food production p| 83
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    l| Ch. 4 t| Farmer power p| 85
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    l| Ch. 5 t| History's haves and have-nots p| 93
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    l| Ch. 6 t| To farm or not to farm p| 104
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    l| Ch. 7 t| How to make an almond p| 114
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    l| Ch. 8 t| Apples or Indians p| 131
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    l| Ch. 9 t| Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle p| 157
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    l| Ch. 10 t| Spacious skies and tilted axes p| 176
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    l| Pt. 3 t| From food to guns, germs, and steel p| 193
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    l| Ch. 11 t| Lethal gift of livestock p| 195
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    l| Ch. 12 t| Blueprints and borrowed letters p| 215
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    l| Ch. 13 t| Necessity's mother p| 239
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    l| Ch. 14 t| From egalitarianism to kleptocracy p| 265
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    l| Pt. 4 t| Around the world in five chapters p| 293
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    l| Ch. 15 t| Yali's people p| 295
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    l| Ch. 16 t| How China became Chinese p| 322
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    l| Ch. 17 t| Speedboat to Polynesia p| 334
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    l| Ch. 18 t| Hemispheres colliding p| 354
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    l| Ch. 19 t| How Africa became black p| 376
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    t| Epilogue : the future of human history as a science p| 403
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    t| Who are the Japanese? p| 426
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    t| 2003 afterword : guns, germs, and steel today p| 450
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