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020			_a1565115147
020			_a9781565115149
028	4	0	_aHBP 88969 _bHigh Bridge
029	1		_aAU@ _b000043282217
035			_a(OCoLC)75973022
040			_aMEAUC _cMEAUC _dMEA _dBTCTA _dOCLCQ _dAU@ _dNFG
049			_aNFGO
092			_a303.4 _bD537
100	1		_aDiamond, Jared M. _976817
245	1	0	_aGuns, germs, and steel _h[sound recording] : _b[the fates of human societies] / _cJared Diamond.
246	3	0	_aFates of human societies
250			_aAbridged.
260			_aSt. Paul, Minn. : _bHighBridge Co., _c[2001], c1997.
300			_a5 sound discs (6 hr.) : _bdigital ; _c4 3/4 in.
500			_aSubtitle from container.
511	0		_aRead by Grover Gardner.
520			_aIs the balance of power in the world, the essentially unequal distribution of wealth and clout that has shaped civilization for centuries, a matter of survival of the fittest, or merely of the luckiest? In Guns, Germs, and Steel, UCLA professor (and author of the best-seller bearing the same title) Jared Diamond makes a compelling case for the latter. Diamond's theory is that the predominance of white Europeans (and Americans of European descent) over other cultures has nothing to do with racial superiority, as many have claimed, but is instead the result of nothing more, or less, than geographical coincidence. His argument, in a nutshell, is that the people who populated the Middle East's "fertile crescent" thousands of years ago were the first farmers, blessed with abundant natural resources (native crops such as wheat and barley, domesticable animals like pigs, goats, sheep, and cows). When their descendents migrated to Europe and northern Africa, climates similar to the crescent's, those same assets, which were unavailable in most of the rest of the world, led to the flourishing of advanced civilizations in those places as well. Add to that their ability to control fire, and Europeans eventually developed the guns and steel (swords, trains, etc.) they used to conquer the planet (the devastating diseases they brought with them, like smallpox, were an unplanned "benefit" to their subjugation of, for instance, Peru's native Incas). The program uses location footage (from New Guinea, South America, Africa, and elsewhere), interviews, reenactments, maps, and Diamond's own participation to support his thesis.
538			_aCompact discs.
650		0	_aAudiobooks. _92293
650		0	_aCivilization _xHistory. _923609
650		0	_aCulture diffusion. _992035
650		0	_aEthnology. _945927
650		0	_aHuman beings _xEffect of environment on. _949205
650		0	_aSocial evolution. _992616
700	1		_aGardner, Grover. _98446
710	2		_aAUC Library. _tVideo collection. _9126130
942			_cAUDIOBOOK _047
994			_aC0 _bNFG
998			_a006615299
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