Guns, Germs and Steel

by Jared Diamond

Recommended in 6 interviews and reading lists

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Who recommends it

1. Barbara TverskyInterview

   More recently I’ve shifted to non-fiction. Since Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstader and The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, more and more eminent scholars have discovered they are also excellent communicators to the public. I read linguistics and cultural history and…

2. Daron AcemogluInterview

   Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (which is a fantastic book, even if I disagree with many of its conclusions).

3. Michael ShermerInterview

   Science books. Anything by: Carl Sagan, Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Alison Gopnik, Sam Harris, Carol Tavris, Lawrence Krauss, Janna Levin, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Sean Carroll, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow, Robert Wright, Matt Ridley, and others on bookshelves you usually…

4. Abdul AbdullahInterview

   I have found myself recommending Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond to a lot of people I know. This book is so good at dismantling misperceptions. For example in Australia there is a lot of racism directed at Aboriginal people, and much of that is based on pseudo-scientific…

5. Cedric VillaniInterview

   I would have to decide between Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond; The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner; 6 and 5 by Alexandre Laumonier; and the current one, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman which I have recommended to all around me even before I finished it.

6. Louise GrayInterview

   Plenty! If I had time… Jared Diamond who wrote Guns, Germs and Steel tends to write books that really influence how we see the world and human history.

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