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DVD : Guns, Germs, and Steel
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List Price: $34.98Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $7.99 (23%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780792292555
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0792292553
Label: National Geographic Video
Manufacturer: National Geographic Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: National Geographic Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Running Time: 165 minutes
Studio: National Geographic Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Sales Rank: 2042
MPN: WARDG93008D
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book and national best seller, Guns, Germs, and Steel is an epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer the biggest question of world history. Why is the world so unequal? The answers he found were simple yet extraordinary. Our destiny depends on geography and access to: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Weaving together anthropology and science with epic historical reenactments, Guns, Germs, and Steel brings Diamond's fascinating theories to life, and moves beyond the book to bring his ideas into the present day.
Amazon.com:
Is the balance of power in the world, the essentially unequal distribution of wealth and clout that has shaped civilization for centuries, a matter of survival of the fittest… or merely of the luckiest? In Guns, Germs, and Steel, UCLA professor (and author of the best-seller bearing the same title) Jared Diamond makes a compelling case for the latter. Diamond's theory is that the predominance of white Europeans (and Americans of European descent) over other cultures has nothing to do with racial superiority, as many have claimed, but is instead the result of nothing more, or less, than geographical coincidence. His argument, in a nutshell, is that the people who populated the Middle East's "fertile crescent" thousands of years ago were the first farmers, blessed with abundant natural resources (native crops such as wheat and barley, domesticable animals like pigs, goats, sheep, and cows). When their descendents migrated to Europe and northern Africa, climates similar to the crescent's, those same assets, which were unavailable in most of the rest of the world, led to the flourishing of advanced civilizations in those places as well. Add to that their ability to control fire, and Europeans eventually developed the guns and steel (swords, trains, etc.) they used to conquer the planet (the devastating diseases they brought with them, like smallpox, were an unplanned "benefit" to their subjugation of, for instance, Peru's native Incas). Spread out over three episodes and two discs and presented with National Geographic's usual style and thoroughness, the program uses location footage (from New Guinea, South America, Africa, and elsewhere), interviews, reenactments, maps, and Diamond's own participation to support his thesis. And while one might disagree with his conclusions, there is no doubt that Guns, Germs, and Steel is a provocative, classy piece of work. --Sam Graham
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This will be one of the most amazing books you have ever read. For the rest of your life, you will be telling all your friends and associates what you have learned from it.
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If you deleted the constant repetition of the title and some of the scenes put in for their emotional value only, it would have been a much better product.
Geography and luck play a major role in the early formation of civilizations. Unfortunately, the author does not expand beyond that simple theory and show how these advantages/disadvantages could be squandered/overcome by societies. His theory does explain why the Europeans were able to conquer most of the world, but does does not ... Read More
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As a child, I was taught that society was developed in the Fertile Crescent and migrated northwest where the success of European society was due to moderate temperature. Of course all this was God's will. (I went to Catholic school.) This eerily familiar story line is augmented by Dr. Jared Diamond in this compelling documentary in which he explains these phenomena in understandable and sometimes surprising ways. The importance of domesticated animals may be more obvious at first glance, but their ... Read More
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Why did some cultures expand faster than others? Why do some cultures have more power and wealth than others? These are the questions answered in Guns, Germs, and Steel. The cultures that developed agriculture had time to develop other technologies (Guns and Steel) and thus were able to conquer other cultures (hunting/foraging societies). A big contributing factor to these agrarian cultures was close proximity to animals and the diseases they carried. This provided the immunity to germs which other ... Read More
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Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel" has had a profound impact on our understanding of human society, how we got to where we are today and the underlining forces that shaped our history. In the true definition of genius, Diamond examines these very complex subjects and leaves the reader with a sense of it all being so simple, just common sense really.
The first time viewer should find the video interesting and stimulating. It provides a brief overview of the overall concept, and helps ... Read More
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