Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2004) achieve their goals

achieve their goals

suicide and the struggles she faced during recovery

Through a series of entertaining and insightful lessons

and Homo Sapiens becomes Homo Deus

Michael Gates Gill

Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2004) achieve their goalsExplaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond surveys human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant