Guns, germs, and steel : (Record no. 1503)
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| fixed length control field | 03386nam a2200277 i 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MIUC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20200212160316.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 170930s2005 nyuab 001 | eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0393061310 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MIUC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | MIUC |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.4 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 3114 |
| Personal name | Diamond, Jared M. |
| 952 ## - Items | |
| Itemnumber | 1827 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Guns, germs, and steel : |
| Remainder of title | the fates of human societies / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Jared Diamond. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York ; |
| -- | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | W. W. Norton & Company ; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 518 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps b&w ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Source | rdacontent |
| Content type term | text |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | On cover: "With a new chapter on Japan." |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-496) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Prologue. Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- <br/>Pt. 1. From Eden to Cajamarca -- <br/>Ch. 1. Up to the Starting Line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- <br/>Ch. 2. A Natural Experiment of History: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- <br/>Ch. 3. Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- <br/>Pt. 2. The rise and spread of food -- <br/>Ch. 4. Farmer Power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- <br/>Ch. 5. History's Haves and Have-Nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- <br/>Ch. 6. To Farm or Not to Farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- <br/>Ch. 7. How to Make an Almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- <br/>Ch. 8. Apples or Indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- <br/>Ch. 9. Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- <br/>Ch. 10: Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- <br/>Pt. 3. From food to guns, germs, and steel -- <br/>Ch. 11. Lethal Gift of Livestock: The evolution of germs -- <br/>Ch. 12. Blueprints and Borrowed Letters: The evolution of writing --<br/>Ch. 13. Necessity's Mother: The evolution of technology -- <br/>Ch. 14. From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- <br/>Pt. 4. Around the world in five chapters -- <br/>Ch. 15. Yali's People: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- <br/>Ch. 16. How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- <br/>Ch. 17. Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of the Austronesian expansion -- <br/>Ch. 18. Hemispheres Colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- <br/>Ch. 19: How Africa became Black: The history of Africa -- <br/>Epilogue: The future of human history as a science -- <br/>Who are the Japanese? -- <br/>2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 3115 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social evolution |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 869 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Ethnology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2495 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Human beings |
| General subdivision | Effect of environment on |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 3116 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Culture diffusion |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Marbella International University Centre | Marbella International University Centre | Library | 22/10/2018 | 303.4 DIA gun | 22/10/2018 | 22/10/2018 | Books |