Mr. P's place. I warned you!!!

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (misterpessimistic) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4131 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:57:21 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/345/t/test1.html feeds@yuku.com (ceco) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/345 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:44:07 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4132/t/Zebras-and-Unhappy-Marriages-A-serious-discussion.html
Eversince I failed to contact Diamond by e-mail about the chapter, I have wanted to talk with as many people as I can about it because I feel that his discussion of the "Ancient Fourteen" was not detailed enough in that it failed to explain, in particular,what might CAUSE the evolution of species... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (luokehao) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4132 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:09:17 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4134/t/Rate-this-book-.html feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4134 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:47:56 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4150/t/what-s-the-gist.html feeds@yuku.com (MadArchitect) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4150 Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:01:04 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4149/t/Links-links-and-more-links-.html www.wwnorton.com/rgguides/gunsgerms.htm

This site has some interesting questions we could discuss. You'll also find information about the author, Jared Diamond.

econ161.berkeley.edu/Teaching_Folder/Econ_210b/Mokyr_on_Diamond.html
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4149 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:08:35 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4148/t/Buy-Guns-Germs-And-Steel-here-.html Guns, Germs And Steel please consider using this link to feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4148 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:51:27 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4152/t/Help-needed-Please-read-me.html
i need some serious help, i have an assignment due very soon, on Guns, Germs and Steel's Chapters 6 to 12 and i haven't finished reading the prescribed chapters. The assignment mainly deals with farming, farmer power, the domestication of plants and animals to the environments which they were domesticated etc.

Your help will be much appreciated. reply here or email me personally on Vumiled@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks.
Much Love
Vumile, South Africa... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4152 Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:32:58 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4153/t/term-paper-I-need-some-help-.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4153 Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:49:24 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4133/t/Guns-Germs-and-Steel-three-Operant-Conditioning.html
One of the major characteristics that make a putative candidate not-domesticable is the species ability... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jeremy1952) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4133 Sat, 08 Feb 2003 22:00:09 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4140/t/Guns-Germs-and-Steel-two-Constraints-and-Niches.html
This strikes me of evidence in favor of the Gould/"constraints" view of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jeremy1952) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4140 Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:57:41 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4138/t/Guns-Germs-and-Steel-one-Style.html Guns, Germs, and Steel. Not the easiest read, but fascinating. I have three barely related comments so I'm going to give each its own thread and see if anyone bites.

The style and approach of GGS remind me of another author/book, and I realized today who/what it is. I find Diamond's book strongly reminiscent of Darwin, On The Origin of Species feeds@yuku.com (Jeremy1952) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4138 Sat, 08 Feb 2003 21:56:01 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4139/t/Referenced-EVERYWHERE.html Blank Slate references GGS. I'm also reading a collection of essays by Barbara Kingsolver, and GGS is at the top of her "suggested reading" list. After Blank Slate I only have four more books to go. . . wait, make that three, since one is fiction. I guess Diamond has to be worked in pretty soon!

I recall someone on the list is reading feeds@yuku.com (Jeremy1952) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4139 Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:48:25 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4135/t/New-article-book-review-by-Jared-Diamond.html Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson in a NY Times Book Review.

www.nybooks.com/articles/15798


Haven't had time to finish the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (LanDroid) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4135 Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:44:12 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4151/t/How-to-make-an-almond-How-to-make-a-post-human-being.html feeds@yuku.com (LanDroid) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4151 Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:40:53 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4154/t/The-book-is-here-The-book-is-here-.html
It arrived just as I was finishing up The Salmon of Doubt. As a side note, the Epilogue of the Salmon of Doubt was written by Douglas Adams' friend Richard Dawkins. A fitting end. There were a number of chapters that would be of interest to many BookTalk members. And of course, there was also a nice sampling of Adams' bizarre humor.

Anyway, I thought I'd let... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (stevepainter) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4154 Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:11:47 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4141/t/Chapter-8-amp-9-make-me-sleepy.html
Chris ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4141 Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:22:14 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4136/t/So-what-do-you-think-.html
Anyway, what do you all think? This is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. Diamond has an amazing ability to gather information from SO many different scientific fields, and combine them into a coherent theory which, IMO, is a great explanation for the way that human societies evolved... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (AckItsJamie) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4136 Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:22:25 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4147/t/Today-is-the-21st-what-page-are-you-all-on-.html "Guns, Germs, And Steel."

I'm a member of a local Skeptics group and the head of the organization loaned me Michael Shermer's latest book, "The Borderlands of Science." I... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4147 Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:11:51 GMT