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Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Audiobook Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformedExplaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond surveys human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant