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Undercover written by Danielle Steel performed by Alexander Cendese on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Undercover written by Danielle Steel performed by Alexander Cendese on Audio CD (Unabridged)£39.99

A powerful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, about an ambassador's daughter who is kidnapped and the former undercover agent who comes to her aid, saving her life in more ways than one. For DEA Special Agent Marshall Everett, life as he knows it is over once a gunshot wound renders his arm useless. Barred forever from the undercover work he loves, he has nothing, no close friends...

Guns, Germs, and Steel written by Jared Diamond performed by Doug Ordunio on Audio CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9780307932426
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  History
Duration:  990 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Jared Diamond
Performer 1:  Doug Ordunio
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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the paths of development of...

human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start.

Only societies that advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage acquired a potential for developing writing, technology, government, and organized religions—as well as those nasty germs and potent weapons of war. It was those societies, that expanded to new homelands at the expense of other peoples.

The most familiar examples involve the conquest of non-European peoples by Europeans in the last 500 years, beginning with voyages in search of precious metals and spices, and often leading to invasion of native lands and decimation of native inhabitants.

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