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Quicklet on Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond: ...

Quicklet on Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond: ...

Niko Silvester

Chapter-By-Chapter Commentary & Summary Niko Silvester. ThinkQuest. Africa: The Cradle of Civilization. UCLA Department of Geography. Jared Diamond. UCLA Spotlight. Jared Diamond. About The Author Nicole Silvester Nicole has ...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Jared Diamond

'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' Economist 'This book ...
Diamond Handbook: A Practical Guide to Diamond Evaluation

Diamond Handbook: A Practical Guide to Diamond Evaluation

Renee Newman

The Diamond Handbook, 2nd edition is a full-color, comprehensive guide to evaluating and identifying diamonds, which is aimed at trade professionals, gemology students, serious diamond buyers, and people who want more diamond evaluation ...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared M. Diamond

The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns
The Betrayal

The Betrayal

Tami Cleckley

“I'm fine,” Diamond answered, smiling. “You don't have to tell me that you're fine.” He grinned. “That I can see.” “Get out of here, Robert!” Diamond wiggled her left hand, displaying her glistering diamond ring. “Now you know I'm getting married  ...
Diamond Ring Buying Guide: How to Evaluate, Identify and ...

Diamond Ring Buying Guide: How to Evaluate, Identify and ...

Renée Newman

The Diamond Ring Buying Guide is a comprehensive full-color guide to selecting and evaluating diamonds and diamond jewelry. This updated 7th edition has 140 new photos of ring styles, colored diamonds and contemporary diamond cuts.
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search ...

Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search ...

Alice Dreger

" Kirkus (starred review): “Let us be grateful that there are writers like Dreger who have the wits and the guts to fight for truth.” Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and The World until Yesterday “Alice Dreger would ...
The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the ...

The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the ...

Anne García-Romero

Dever, John P., and Aileen Dever. The Poetry and Prose of Rosalía de Castro: A Bilingual Facing Page Edition. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: ...
The World's Oldest Subway | The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel | ...

The World's Oldest Subway | The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel | ...

Bob Diamond

1979-1980 - Robert Diamond learns about the tunnel and begins investigating its whereabouts 1981 - Robert Diamond discovers the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel 1982 - Tunnel access improved by Robert Diamond & friends 1982 - BHRA formed ...
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Prospectus

Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Prospectus

Bob Diamond

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The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For ...

The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For ...

Bob Diamond

Bob Diamond. 3.4%one 7/4-330-6:243 %measony &nzoneer 226%ad, are 3%ad , %aten Asana. Mea &rA /ø/2 February 6, 1985 Mr. Robert Diamond Brooklyn Historical Railway Association 599 East 7th Street Brooklyn, New York ll218 Dear  ...
Iron Cowboy

Iron Cowboy

Diana Palmer

Charmed by her audaciousness, Jared seduced the town's plain Jane. But their burgeoning relationship soon thrust Sara into Jared's hidden world of intrigue. Now the iron cowboy had to steel himself for the fight of his life…and his heart.
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a ...

Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a ...

Greg Graffin

Greg Graffin, and this uniquely fascinating book.” —Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Anarchy Evolution is a provocative look at the collision between religion and science, by an author with unique authority: UCLA lecturer ...
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires

War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires

Peter Turchin

Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires.
Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike

Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike

Jared Orsi

In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
How to Buy a Diamond: Insider Secrets for Getting Your ...

How to Buy a Diamond: Insider Secrets for Getting Your ...

Fred Cuellar

She then called Ward Landrigan, the head of Parke-Bernet's jewelry department, and explained that because she did not want any publicity, the diamond should be auctioned without her family's name attached to it. This caveat gave the ...
Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise ...

Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise ...

Jon T. Coleman

Jared Orsi has shown how aspiring gentlemen like Zebulon Pike used frontier hardships to enhance their status. See Jared Orsi, “Zebulon Pike and His 'Frozen Lads': Bodies, Nationalism, and the West in the Early Republic,” Western ...
Never Too Late Collection 1, Books 1-4: Romantic Comedy ...

Never Too Late Collection 1, Books 1-4: Romantic Comedy ...

Donna McDonald

“It's Lauren McCarthy,” Jim said finally, her name hanging in the air between them. “I know her. She used to be Lauren McCarthy Smith, exwife of Jared Smith. Jared Smith was the bastard who slept with my exwife,” Barrett exclaimed. “I'll be  ...
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle

Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle

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... Kent Curtis, Jared Farmer, Mark Fiege, Drew Isenberg, Ari Kelman, Linda Nash , Jared Orsi, Sara Pritchard, Jeff Sanders, Robert Self, Bruce Stadfeld, Ellen Stroud, and Bob Wilson. Kathyrn Morse, Jay Taylor, and Kim Todd read the entire  ...
Lamar Series in Western History: Emerald City: an ...

Lamar Series in Western History: Emerald City: an ...

Matthew W. Klingle

... including Thomas Andrews, Kathy Brosnan, Kent Curtis, Jared Farmer, Mark Fiege, Drew Isenberg, Ari Kelman, Linda Nash, Jared Orsi, Sara Pritchard, Jeff Sanders, Robert Self, Bruce Stadfeld, Ellen Stroud, and Bob Wilson. Kathyrn Morse ...
Last Lullaby: An Eve Diamond Novel

Last Lullaby: An Eve Diamond Novel

Denise Hamilton

“Ms. Diamond,” Scott Aiken yelled out. “Don't run.” And before I knew it he was on the porch and had spotted me and was leaping down the stairs, four at a time, his breath coming in jagged rasps. I lunged for the knife and shoved the girl ...
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

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Elaine Aston, Elin Diamond. I. ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND ... and internationally. Hence, wherever one looks the Churchillian landscape is ' frightening'. At Introduction: on Caryl Churchill ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND.
Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-neng

Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-neng

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The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the fourth century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature and is the oldest existing printed book in the world.
Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based ...

Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based ...

David Diamond

This book relates the experiences of his life in theatre. For what he has already done, is doing, and certainly will do, David Diamond deserves all our support.
Two Against the Underworld - The Collected Unauthorised ...

Two Against the Underworld - The Collected Unauthorised ...

Alan Hayes

It would appear that Max Marquis was a fast worker, since Leonard White's memo of 23rd December 1960 makes no mention of his episode among the list of eight scripts then in development. Diamond Cut Diamond was ultimately transmitted ...
Pinter's Comic Play

Pinter's Comic Play

Elin Diamond

Diamond argues that the metaphysical fear and emptiness so characteristic of the Pinter situation are inseparable from his use and abuse of literary and popular comic traditions.
How to Buy a Diamond

How to Buy a Diamond

Fred Cuellar

An easy-to-read insider's guide, How to Buy a Diamond shares the secrets of everything from the ring style to choosing a jeweler, understanding pricing and even "the proposal".
The Diamond Anchor

The Diamond Anchor

Jennifer Mills

An unexpected letter from her childhood friend Grace forces May to relive their extraordinary past and confront the events that drove them apart fifty years earlier .May's father won the Diamond Anchor, a dilapidated pub perched on the ...
The Carlisle Diamond

The Carlisle Diamond

Peter Lawler

This is the third and final novel of the Carlisle Trilogy, titled The Carlisle Diamond.
Diamond Handbook: How to Look at Diamonds & Avoid Ripoffs

Diamond Handbook: How to Look at Diamonds & Avoid Ripoffs

Renée Newman

This handbook expands on the information provided in Newman's companion book, The Diamond Ring Buying Guide and covers additional topics requested by the readers.

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