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03009nam a2200349 i 4500 |
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sky285256638 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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SKY |
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20180125154814.0 |
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171016s2017 nyuab b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2017301130 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780393354324 (pbk) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0393354326 (pbk) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
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SKYRV |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
303.4 |
| 092 0# - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
303.4 |
| Item number |
Diamond 2017 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Diamond, Jared M. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6082 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Guns, germs, and steel : |
| Remainder of title |
the fates of human societies / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Jared Diamond. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
20th Anniversary edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Norton, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2017] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
494 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia. |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- Who are the Japanese? 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Social evolution. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6083 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Civilization |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6084 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Ethnology. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6085 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Human beings |
| General subdivision |
Effect of environment on. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6086 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Culture diffusion. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6087 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Nonfiction. |
| Source of term |
local. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6088 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
