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 Cover of the first edition, featuring the painting Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru by John Everett Millais | |
| Author | Jared Diamond |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Geography, social evolution, ethnology, cultural diffusion |
| Published | 1997 (W. W. Norton) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback), audio CD, audio cassette, audio download |
| Pages | 480 pages (1st edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-393-03891-2 (1st edition, hardcover) |
| OCLC | 35792200 |
| Dewey Decimal | 303.4 21 |
| LC Class | HM206 .D48 1997 |
| Preceded by | Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality |
| Followed by | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (also titled Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book, and produced by the National Geographic Society, was broadcast on PBS in July fewiugffffffoqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq1111111111111111111111