The author of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is named Jared Diamond.The place of publication was New York City in the United States and published in the year of 1997. There are 498 pages in the book including Index‚ Credits‚ Acknowledgments‚ and Further Readings. There are 446 pages without them. This nonfiction book tries to explain why history advanced differently from people of different regions of the world. Diamond summarizes the book within this sentence‚ "History followed different courses for different
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A Guidebook i Concepts and Terms in Educational Planning A Guidebook Y.P. Aggarwal R.S. Thakur Operations Research and Systems Management Unit National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration July‚ 2003 17-B‚ Sri Aurobindo Marg‚ New Delhi - 110016 ii Concepts and Terms in Educational Planning Prepared for publication by (Late) Dr. Y.P. Aggarwal and Dr. R.S. Thakur National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration 17-B‚ Sri Aurobindo Marg‚ New
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Submit the completed assignment by the end of the day Sunday of Module 4. Name: Date: 4/29/11 Student ID: Email: Selected Film: Steel Magnolias Record your answers in the space provided. The boxes will expand as you type. Students are expected to adhere to standards of scholarly writing. Answer the questions in your own words‚ in complete sentences‚ and in appropriate paragraphs. Use Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Man to describe the stage of development experienced by your
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friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals. Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germs‚ steel‚ and food-producing capability? Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence‚ etc. but rather because of environmental differences. He wishes to play down Eurocentric thinking and racist explanations
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In Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond is the response to a question Diamond had been asked by a New Guinean politician‚ Yali‚ in 1972. The question was‚ “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people have little cargo of our own?” This refers to the inequality between many different civilizations‚ quite like how Europeans developed great objects and wealth that they used to dominate over other societies
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“Why is there so much inequality in the world: where some societies have so much‚ while others have so little?” The word inequality is defined as “difference in size‚ degree‚ circumstances‚ etc.; lack of equality” In the video Guns‚ Germs and Steel Diamond explains why the world has a massive amount of inequality and some reasons why are animals being used as food‚ milk‚ clothing & etc.‚ animals being used as beasts of burden and useful plants. To begin with‚ one of the reasons why there is so much
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continents. He says that the remainder of the book is to discover those real reasons. In section two‚ chapter four‚ Diamond argues that superior food production was the root cause beneath the ability of Eurasia’s people to develop the guns‚ germs‚ and steel that conquered the rest of the world. First‚ a population that can produce more food can also produce more
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The article‚ Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ written by Jared Diamond‚ is an argument about how and why things happened differently in history in different continents. It’s about looking deeper into why things happened the way they did. Why did western Eurasian societies become more powerful? What enabled these parts of the world to develop more quickly and in turn be able to conquer less developed societies around the world? The important message to grasp from this article is not about how certain continents
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METAMORPHOSIS OF TATA STEEL -THE CHALLENGES OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand‚ more perilous to conduct‚ or more uncertain in its success‚ than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." — Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1532) "In times of rapid change‚ experience could be your worst enemy." — J. Paul Getty INTRODUCTION 1. Tata Steel is the largest steel company of the country and at present stands as the 10th largest steel firm in the
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This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that between Kamal the border raider and the Colonel’s son of the Guides. In the first chapter the author recounts a conversation that he‚ a biologist studying bird evolution‚ had in New Guinea in 1972 with Yali‚ a local politician preparing his people for self-government‚ which culminated in the searching question ‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [goods] and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had
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