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on ordinary days
'Intelligent and lucid' Martin Wolf
A widow whisks her daughter away for a holiday she can barely afford
Across a diverse selection of essays
the cat and Rintaro meet a man who leaves his books to perish on a bookshelf
Guns, Germs and Steel James Fenton on ordinary daysWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground breaking and humane work of popular science