Guns, Germs and Steel-枪支、细菌和钢铁

作者：Jared Diamond

书名：Guns, Germs and Steel《枪支、细菌和钢铁》

中文简介：《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》（Guns, Germs, and Steel）是由美国加州大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授贾德·戴蒙于1997年所著。此书于1998年获得普利策奖以及英国科普书奖。根据作者，此书试图提供“最近13,000年来所有人的简短历史”。但本书并不只是描述过去历史的书；它试图解释为何欧亚文明最终可以存活下来并战胜其他文明，同时驳斥欧亚霸权是由欧亚知识分子或道德上的优越而来。戴蒙认为人类社会中权利与技术的歧异无法反映文化或种族上的差异，而是来自于被各种不同正回馈循环强力扩大的环境差异。

英文简介：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 the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.