Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Garden By the author of Happy

By the author of Happy Birthday

with its rolling meadows and secret byways

and even how to survive when things go wrong

They are so often the overcooked afterthought to the 'meat and two veg' equation

then illuminate

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Garden By the author of HappyIn this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter gatherer stage, and then developed religion as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A