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Written by Jared Diamond - Narrated by Grover Gardner - Nonfiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audio (August 2001)

Pulitzer Prize Winner!

“Guns, Germs, and Steel is an artful, informative and delightful book. . . . There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject.” —The New York Review of Books

“[Guns, Germs, and Steel] is a brilliantly written, passionate whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of history.” —Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world’s peoples, a unified narrative of human life.

About the Author: Jared Diamond is Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("Genius Award") and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award.