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槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

紐約時報暢銷書 · 出處：W. W. Norton 官網

賈雷德·戴蒙德問了一個大問題：為什麼不同大陸上的歷史走得這麼不一樣？他明確不從種族差異找答案，而是往回追到一萬多年前，看地理、可馴化的動植物、病菌、文字和技術怎樣讓一些社會先走一步。讀完會換個眼光看今天世界上的強弱和貧富。

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他們怎麼說

  • 蒙格1998 · BRK股東大會

    讀了兩遍。同類最好。

原書目錄

32 項
  1. Preface to the Paperback Edition: Why Is World History Like an Onion?
  2. Prologue Yali’s Question
  3. Part One: From Eden to Cajamarca
  4. Chapter 1. Up to the Starting Line
  5. Chapter 2. A Natural Experiment of History
  6. Chapter 3. Collision at Cajamarca
  7. Part Two: The Rise and Spread of Food Production
  8. Chapter 4. Farmer Power
  9. Chapter 5. History’s Haves and Have-nots
  10. Chapter 6. To Farm or Not to Farm
  11. Chapter 7. How to Make an Almond
  12. Chapter 8. Apples or Indians
  13. Chapter 9. Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
  14. Chapter 10. Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
  15. Part Three: From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel
  16. Chapter 11. Lethal Gift of Livestock
  17. Chapter 12. Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
  18. Chapter 13. Necessity’s Mother
  19. Chapter 14. From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
  20. Part Four: Around the World in Six Chapters
  21. Chapter 15. Yali’s People
  22. Chapter 16. How China Became Chinese
  23. Chapter 17. Speedboat to Polynesia
  24. Chapter 18. Hemispheres Colliding
  25. Chapter 19. How Africa Became Black
  26. Chapter 20. Who Are the Japanese?
  27. Epilogue: The Future of Human History as a Science
  28. 2017 Afterword: Rich and Poor Countries in Light of Guns, Germs, and Steel
  29. Further Readings
  30. Credits
  31. Illustrations
  32. Reading Group Guide

封面和目錄取自原書，中文簡介據原書前言和導言整理；推薦原話出處見“他們怎麼說”。這本書還沒開講，開講後會在這裡更新。