Rifle Germs and Steel

“This book is a brief history of thirteen thousand years of people on all continents. Everyone and everything is explained. It demolishes racist approaches by explaining the different developments of different societies on different continents in a convincing and scientific way... You will not be able to put it down after reading the first two pages.”
-Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University-

“Fascinating… It provides a basis for understanding human history.”
-Bill Gates-

“A book of big questions and big answers.”
-Yuval Noah Harari-

“An incredibly comprehensive book. Jared Diamond achieves what many other authors have failed to do and successfully tells the history of the entire world in six hundred pages. "One of the most important and readable books about human history published in recent years."
-Nature-

“Serious and groundbreaking books in human history research come only once in every generation. Rifle, Germs and Steel are ready to take their place among these classics... Diamond combines its mastery of technology with a wide historical scope. "A book this meticulous and comprehensive has not been published in years."
-Washington Times-

“Jared Diamond explains scientific data in a way that everyone can understand and covers a subject that will attract the attention of anyone wondering how human history developed... He has done everyone a great favor by producing a scientifically based theory in response to racist responses. “An incredibly interesting book.”
-Los Angeles Times-

The 13,000-year history of all people living on Earth…

Human history is full of states, wars, discoveries, inventions and innovations. While empires were established and destroyed, events took place that changed the course of history and determined the fate of continents. But how did human history begin and how was it shaped? Why is the geography of Anatolia and the Middle East so important in the flow of history? Why could horses be domesticated in Eurasia, but not zebras in Africa? Why didn't the natives of the Americas invade Europe and vice versa? Why did some societies remain rich while others remained poor?

Guns, Germs and Steel is a magnificent work that asks the most crucial and important questions of human history and answers them with scientific evidence. It is a history book that shows the future, written using many fields such as biology, geography, linguistics and history, free from "Western" conditions.

This book examines in detail how religions were born, how states were established, how microbes and the diseases related to them formed, the importance of agriculture and animal husbandry in our lives, why writing was invented, how and why human beings developed technology, and what the foundations of human history are.

And the whole story begins 13,000 years ago, when a person living in the Middle East planted a grain of wheat in the ground.

“Artistic, informative and entertaining… There's nothing like seeing a window into a subject that illuminates aspects you've never thought of before, and Jared Diamond has done just that.”
-William H. McNeil, New York Review of Books-

“The scope and explanatory power of this book are incredible.”
-The New Yorker-

“We can clearly see in Guns, Germs and Steel that no scientist can explain social issues as clearly and easily as Jared Diamond. Combining biology and history in this incredibly successful book, Jared Diamond explains the human condition in more depth than ever before.”
-Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University-

“A breathtaking book that explains how our world of haves and have-nots came to be. "This is a subject that has never been handled with such expertise and compassion."
-The Times-

“An extraordinary and persuasive book. “The scope is incredible.”
-Observer-

“This book transformed me from a historian researching medieval wars to a student of human history.”
Yuval Noah Harari-

“Interesting and extremely important… A summary of this book would be unfair to it.”

-David Brown-

“It deserves the attention of anyone who is curious about human history at its most basic level. A work at its peak. Diamond has written a logical and evidence-based account of human history.”

-Thomas M. Disch-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 664

Size: 13.5 x 21

Language Turkish

Original Title: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies