Description ★★★ #1 Longest-Checked-Out Book at Seoul National University Library ★★★ Top 10 Most-Borrowed Book at the National Library of Korea ★★★ Selected as one of the '20 Recommended Books for College Freshmen' by the Korea Publication Ethics Commission ★★★ Named one of the 'Top 10 Books Professors Want to Read Again' ★★★ Featured on The New York Times' '100 Books to Read Before You Die' Jared Diamond's landmark work of civilizational studies A modern classic that unravels the mysteries of how civilizations rise and flourish The world-renowned masterpiece Guns, Germs, and Steel, offering revolutionary insight into human history, has been newly released. This book is the representative work of Jared Diamond, a towering intellect whose research spans cultural anthropology, history, science, and future forecasting. Overturning conventional wisdom about history and presenting a groundbreaking new perspective on the origins and prosperity of civilizations, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Why are some nations wealthy while others are poor? Why have some peoples been conquered and ruled by others? Why did Eurasians—rather than the peoples of the Americas, Africa, or Australia—come to dominate the world's wealth and power? Guns, Germs, and Steel weaves together biology, geography, anthropology, history, linguistics, and more to tell the grand story of human history, offering a comprehensive explanation for the inequalities of today's world. Shaking up both press and academia upon its release, this book has since been translated into 43 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide as a global bestseller. Hailed by The Washington Post as "a book everyone should read before graduating from college," it is beloved by readers around the globe. In Korea, it is famous for having been the '#1 Longest-Checked-Out Book at Seoul National University Library,' ranking in the 'Top 10 Most-Borrowed Books at the National Library of Korea,' and being selected among the '20 Recommended Books for College Freshmen' by the Korea Publication Ethics Commission. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, it has won the UK's Royal Society Science Book Prize, Japan's Cosmos International Prize, and the California Book Award. With its sweeping narrative offering fresh insight into the crises and opportunities facing humanity, this book has earned its place among the classics. "This is the book that turned me from a medieval war historian into an anthropologist. It gave me the courage to write Sapiens." — Yuval Noah Harari, Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem "If you're only going to read one of Jared Diamond's books, it should definitely be Guns, Germs, and Steel. It laid the cornerstone for understanding human history." — Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft A groundbreaking study tracing the arc of human history and civilizational development to comprehensively explain the roots of today's global inequality Professor Jared Diamond is a renowned scholar consistently called upon to offer clear-eyed commentary on social issues and insight into the transformation and future of civilization. Yet this celebrated cultural anthropologist and civilization scholar did not begin his career studying anthropology. While serving as a professor of physiology, he began researching evolutionary biology by observing birds in New Guinea in 1964. From there, he expanded his research into geography, biogeography, environmental history (studying the interaction between ecosystems and humans), and cultural anthropology. Along the way, he wrote books for general readers around the world addressing profound questions inherent to human society. "I came to realize that our children's future depends on whether we can successfully solve, within the coming decades, the critical problems threatening our world today. These are problems rooted in the complex interplay of human society, geography, and history. That is why, at the age of 50, I made a career change and wrote this book—to raise awareness among as many people as possible while also searching for solutions. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, I sought to answer one of the most fundamental questions in human history." — From the '2023 Special Preface' From Europe to the Americas, Australia, and East Asia, Jared Diamond's exceptional comparative research and integrated knowledge—built through work spanning both laboratory and field—truly shine in Guns, Germs, and Steel. By approaching human history through the lens of natural science, he demonstrates with sharp argumentation that environmental differences have profoundly shaped the course of human history and civilizational development. This is precisely where the book's greatest significance lies. Guns, Germs, and Steel dismantles the biological prejudice that innate superiority among races or ethnic groups caused today's global imbalances, breaking free from Western-centric views of history and racist theories. No society is inherently...