Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Guns, Germs and Steel

A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

1997 • 480 pages

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I loved this book - I learned so much. The author writes the book as if he were teaching a university class - the theme is revisited again and again, with many different examples, each one building on the previous one. I feel like I have a strong understanding of why the world is the way it is (albeit in a very general sense). I love feeling smarter!

February 1, 2009