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Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared M. Diamond
480 pages1997
Civilization
About This Book
This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.
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12h 13m
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180 WPM
8h 48m
average reader
250 WPM
6h 17m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 132,000 wordsπ
18 days at 30 min/day
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