Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

 

Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)



Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)



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For use in schools and libraries only. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. Reissue.

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