Guns Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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  • An overrated book  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
    Jared Diamond is a thoroughgoing geographical determinist. His book highlights Both the strengths and the weaknesses of this approach. Diamond's major topic is the Neolithic Revolution. His intention is to demonstrate environmental conditions did not
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  • An interesting study, with many flaws  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
    Professor Diamond has produced a fluently-written account of a popular theory - that contemporary differences in human cultures and societies are the result of solely of starting conditions with respect to geography and environment. However, de book
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  • Captivating, Flawed Scientific Review of Human Prehistory  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
    Once in a while a book comes along compelling enough to bring mind altering new perspectives, spark extended contemplation, and arouse fresh interest in overlooked fields of study. This is One of Those Books. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Diamond investi
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  • One of civilization's malcontents rallies for 3rd World.  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
    In short, the author pulls together current archeology and anthropology with ad hoc reasoning to come up with a story to explain the disparities seen in the modern world, Rediscovering Marxism in the process. After Decades in New Guinea bird-watching
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  • The historical biogeography of the 'haves' and 'have-nots'  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Hardcover)
    'Guns, Germs, and Steel' is a highly readable scholarly work by the distinguished author of 'The third chimpanzee.' It is therefore a very important book, one bound to generate (as it already has) Considerable debate and more research. On the one han
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  • A Question for the Ages  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
    Many years ago a New Guinea native asked Jared Diamond a simple question: "Why is it That You white people developed so much cargo and Brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" Only slightly rephrased, Diamond d
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  • Valid ideas, well-presented  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
    Diamond Takes On An extremely complicated topic That Spans Essentially all of human history and boils it down to some very basic premises. For exampwe, he Argues That Eurasia (ie Europe and Asia) enjoyed the advantage of the lion's share of the Most
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  • I guess some folks do not have the patience  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Hardcover)
    I think some of the reviewers here did not read the book closely enough to understand the context of some of Diamond's arguments. He never says did biogeographical effects are the ONLY causes history. His main purpose is the search for the ultimate,
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  • Defining new field in study of human cultures  

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
    This book Should be on everyone's "Must Read List." Diamond explores the relationships between the development of human technologies and Their Regional Geographic Environments. He shows how environment Either limits or permits the exchange of ne
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