Guns, Germs and Steel by Diamond, Jared

Winner of the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize. Purchased in Europe and was published in the UK. The book answers the most obvious,mthe most important question about human history – why history unfolded so differently on the different continents. NATURE called it “One of the most important readable works on the human past.” Great book for anyone interested in popular science.