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  Guns, Germs and Steel:  The Fates of Human Societies    By  Jared Diamond     Preview:  What are the reasons behind the divergent patterns of development of different regions? This is the question Yali, a New Guinean politician, asked Jared Diamond. In response to his query, Diamond wrote “Guns, Germs and Steel”, a Pulitzer prize-winning bestseller book that explores human history and tries to explain it with the theory of geographical determinism which states that our history is largely shaped by geography and our immediate environment. Jared Diamond adopts the present-day approach by synthesizing the knowledge of history, anthropology, biology, geography, ecology, and linguistics, to investigate the history of human beings.  About the Author  Dr. Jared Diamond is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Geography. He started his career in physiology and further explored evolutionary biology and biogeography. He has published more than six hundre

  Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind By  Dr.  Yuval Noah Harari.   Preview   Dr. Yuval Harari, in his book, Sapiens, digs into the history of the present, modern day human the Homo sapiens while discussing what the future holds for our species as well. In four parts, Dr. Harari takes the readers on a journey through the history of mankind and its future, from the time of the Australopithecines to the modern-day Homo S apien  Sapiens (literally translating to Man wise wise) as we have very modestly labeled ourselves as.   The  A uthor and  his  style   The author of the book is Dr. Yuval Noah Harari. He is a historian and a professor working for the Department of History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He specializes in world history and macro-historical processes. Sapiens was published in 2011, initially in Hebrew and quickly became a bestseller in Israel. In 2014, it was published in English, and since then it has been translated into over 30 languages. Dr. Harari’s writing s