[Hac-announce] Sept 2017 Book Discussion: "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond

[kvngough at aol.com]

Our book for September is Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by geographer and anthropologist Jared Diamond.The discussion will take place Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 2 pm in the library of the Unitarian Society of New Haven at 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden. [Note the date: The Sept. book discussion will be the 4th Saturday of the month, Sept. 23 (instead of Sept. 16).]












>From Amazon:


In this "artful,informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New YorkReview of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographicaland environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had ahead start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, andthen 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, andSteel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunninglydismantles 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!


Light snacks will be served.

 





 



 










 












































 

 
 

 





















 





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