First published in the United States by W.W.Norton and Company, on March 1 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel was initially subtitled ‘The Fates of Human Societies.’ Within a few months, this subtitle had ...

"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover. Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]. Contents Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up ...

So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people – Europeans – endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world. Guns, germs and steel ...

Jared Diamond was a biologist studying birds in New Guinea in 1972 when a local politician asked him a simple question: Why does the white man have so many possessions while New Guineans have so few?

If you're intrigued by the ideas and arguments raised by Jared Diamond's National Geographic series, Guns, Germs and Steel, your first port of call should be Professor Diamond's Pulitzer Priz- winning ...

In February 2021 a deep freeze caused widespread power outages in Texas, leaving about 10 million Texans without electricity, in many cases for days. Hundreds died. The biggest proximate cause of the ...

Jack Fitzhenry is a legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Follow him on X at @Jfitzy_jd. What do epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff and the National Rifle ...

A PBS documentary concerning Jared Diamond's theory on why there is such disparity between those who have advanced technology and those who still live primitively. He argues it is due to the ...

In February 2021 a deep freeze caused widespread power outages in Texas, leaving about 10 million Texans without electricity, in many cases for days. Hundreds died. The biggest proximate cause of the ...