books.google.com - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond...http://books.google.com/books/about/Guns_Germs_and_Steel_The_Fates_of_Human.html?id=PWnWRFEGoeUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
