Guns, Germs, and
Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Life isn't fair--here's why: Since 1500, Europeans have, for better and worse, called
the tune that the world has danced to. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains
the reasons why things worked out that way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is
not nearly the first to ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relying on
scientific fact rather than specious theories of European genetic superiority. Diamond, a
professor of physiology at UCLA, suggests that the geography of Eurasia was best suited to
farming, the domestication of animals, and the free flow of information. The more populous
cultures that developed as a result had more complex forms of government and
communication--and increased resistance to disease. Finally, fragmented Europe harnessed
the power of competitive innovation in ways that China did not. (For example, the
Europeans used the Chinese invention of gunpowder to create guns and subjugate the New
World.) Diamond's book is complex and a bit overwhelming. But the thesis he methodically
puts forth--examining the "positive feedback loop" of farming, then
domestication, then population density, then innovation, and on and on--makes sense.
Written without favor, Guns, Germs, and Steel is good global history. - Amazon.com
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Paperback: 480 pages
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393317552; (April 1999)
The Clash of
Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington (Paperback -- February 1998)
Don't Know Much
About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
by Kenneth C. Davis (Paperback -- September 7, 1999)
Salt: A World
History
by Mark Kurlansky (Hardcover -- January 2002)
Desire of the
Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History (Paper), Vol 3)
by Thomas Cahill, Luann Walther (Editor) (Paperback -- February 13, 2001)
The Timetables of
History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
by Bernard Grun, Daniel J. Boorstin (Paperback -- December 1991)
Carnage and
Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
by Victor Davis Hanson (Hardcover -- August 2001)
Catastrophe: A
Quest for the Origins of the Modern World
by David Keys
If Keys is correct - and a great number of authoritative sources believe he is - much of
CE history will be re-written in light of his findings. Something happened in 535AD - and
the sun went out for a year!
Hardcover - 343 pages (February 1, 2000)
Ballantine Books (Trd); ISBN: 0345408764 |
|
Cataclysm :
Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.
by D. S. Allan, J. B. Delair
This book explores the probability that an an extraordinary event occured involving some
type of body entering our solar system and effecting each planet and ultimately the earth
causing major axis shift. None of the reviews seem to mention Velikovsky, who first
expounded this theory.
Paperback (October 1997)
Bear & Co; ISBN: 1879181428 |
|
Ages in Chaos
by Immanuel Velikovsky
Hardcover Reprint edition (June 2001)
Amereon Ltd; ISBN: 0848814975
Delivery delayed
Lenin's Tomb : The
Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
(Paperback - May 1994)
Beyond Binary
Histories : Re-Imagining Eurasia to C.1830
by Victor B. Lieberman (Editor)
Paperback - 320 pages (September 1999)
Univ of Michigan Pr; ISBN: 0472086332
A History of
Britain : At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D
by Simon Schama
Hardcover - 416 pages 1 Ed edition (October 2000)
Talk Miramax Books; ISBN: 0786866756
The Waning of the
Renaissance, 1550-1640 (Intellectual History of the West Series)
by William James Bouwsma
Hardcover - 352 pages (February 2001)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300085370
The Creation of the
Modern World: The British Enlightenment
by Roy Porter
Hardcover - 608 pages (December 4, 2000)
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393048721
The Crisis of
Reason : European Thought, 1848-1914
(Yale Intellectual History of the West)
by J. W. Burrow
Hardcover - 271 pages (October 2000)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300083904
Delivery sometimes delayed.
Three Critics of
the Enlightenment
by Henry Hardy (Editor), Isaiah, Sir Berlin
Paperback - 382 pages (November 15, 2000)
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691057273
The Oxford
Companion to Classical Civilization
by Simon Hornblower (Editor), et al
(Hardcover - December 1998)
Wars of the Irish
Kings : A Thousand Years of Struggle from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth I
by David W. McCullough (Editor)
(Hardcover - October 2000)
Kings, Queens,
Bones and Bastards : Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert to Elizabeth II
by David Hilliam
(Paperback - April 2000)
Francis Bacon
by John Russell
Includes all the major literary writings on which Bacon's reputation rests--the
Advancement of Learning, the Essays (in their first and last versions), and the New
Atlantis. It also includes sixteen other works not reprinted for over a century, which
show Bacon's remarkable all-round abilities in politics, law, theology, and poetry. The
selections are annotated in more detail than in any other edition, with particular
emphasis on explaining Bacon's language.
(Hardcover - December 1989)
Francis Bacon &
the Rhetoric of Nature
by John C. Briggs
Francis Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature offers a synthesis of Bacon's views about
language and nature. John Briggs clarifies the close relation between Bacon's famous
reform of scientific method and his less well known conceptions of rhetoric, nature, and
religion. Amazon.com
(Paperback - November 1999)
Cadillac and the
Dawn of Detroit
by Annick H. Carthew
Cadillac and the Dawn of Detroit describe the first ten years of Detroit, from the raising
of its walls to Cadillac's reluctant departure. Author Annick Hivert-Carthew details the
strategic importance of Detroit and the struggle between France and Britain to control the
fur trade of the Great Lakes. The day-to-day struggles of Detroit's pioneers - their
strengths, dreams, births, marriages, social customs, and religious rites all come to life
in this engaging portrayal of colonial living. Amazon.com
Paperback - 275 pages (December 1995)
Wilderness Adventure Books; ISBN: 0923568387
Mickey Mouse
History and Other Essays on American Memory (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
by Mike Wallace
Mickey Mouse History probes into the struggles over public memory and the
trivialization of history that pervades American culture. Amazon.com
(Paperback - May 1996)
We Interrupt This
Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of John F.
Kennedy Jr. (2nd Edition)
by Joe Garner, et al
(Hardcover - May 2000)
How the Scots
Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created
Our World and Everything in It
by Arthur Herman
(Hardcover)
DK Atlas of World
History
by Jeremy Black (Editor) (Hardcover)
![All Products : Midnight Run [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5165Xvij4FL._SL75_.jpg)
![All Products : Child's Play [Blu-ray]](http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/icons/dvd-no-image.gif){kind=icon}
