Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond (b. 1937) is an American geographer, historian, and author renowned for his interdisciplinary approach to understanding human societies. A professor of geography at UCLA, he is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), which explores how environmental and geographic factors shaped the development of civilizations.

Diamond’s other acclaimed works, including Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, examine the lessons history and traditional cultures offer for modern challenges. His research spans fields such as anthropology, biology, and history, earning him numerous awards and recognition as one of the leading thinkers in global and environmental studies.

  • Anthropology, Biology, History
  • 1937
  • Male
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  • Guns, Germs and Steel A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
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    Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

    What if the fate of nations was written in the soil, not the stars? Jared Diamond dismantles the myth of destiny to reveal how geography and biology forged empires—where wheat domesticated humans, germs became weapons, and continents collided to decide who conquered whom. But as ancient seeds and silent plagues reshaped the world, a chilling question lingers: What if your ancestors’ triumph—or tragedy—was mere luck… and the next global reckoning is already rooted in the ground beneath your feet?

    • Originally Published: 1997
    • Publisher : Vintage, 2017
    • Pages: 580
    • Genre: Non-Fiction
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0099302780
    • Access: Members