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Guns, germs, and steel
528 pages1997
prize:pulitzer=1998EthnologyCriticism and interpretationCulture diffusionEffect of environment on
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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13h 27m
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180 WPM
9h 41m
average reader
250 WPM
6h 55m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 145,200 wordsπ
20 days at 30 min/day
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