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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Grove Art)
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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In our view, the key to understanding how societies evolve is to understand factors that determine the costs and rewards of employing violence. Every human society, from the hunting band to the empire, has been informed by the interactions of megapolitical factors that set the prevailing version of the “laws of nature.”
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
