Jared diamond's guns, germs, and steel shows the impact of guns,germs and steel in interactions between indigenously peoples and colonisers. This book is one of the best foundational books on how colonization leads to the destabilization and downfall ...  Read More

When you’re on a huge wave as a surfer you have to give credit to the swell that propels you there. The author writes in a broad yet in depth manner that i really enjoy. Very enlightening and easy to read.

The best economies know how to make money and keep doing what they do best where they have an edge, usually technology. The military benefit from germs as an extra weapon. Extra food can then be traded for storing extra wealth. Most of the wild grass ...  Read More

Great premise, mediocre execution. Worst writing style" "all the critics in msm magazines and papers are happy for they get lull themselves to sleep again instead of answering hard questions to the [insert derogatory buzzword here].

He dreads this boom because it is so convoluted with info. It is a bit of a bait and switch since the title names what he calls proximate factors. The chicken-egg heuristic is exhausted - use yin-yang simultaneity that accelerates or slows.

The theory that europe developed faster than the rest of the world due to its geologic shape is non-sensical.