Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel is a book about the obstacles and the force factors that have formed human history over the last 10,000 years.  The first part of the book discusses why some societies do well and advance and other just stay the way they have been for some thousands of years. He didn't want to use the common answer of “racism”. He found out it was more about the people’s environment than the people themselves.  It has won a Pulitzer Prize for the best non-fiction book, 3 literary prizes, and the Rhone Poulenc Science Book Prize. It has been translated into 25 languages and it was a popular book, especially around the time it came out. It made people start to think. People spoke out about the book and how they thought his views were wrong and others also expressed how true the book was and how right Jerry Diamond was.