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

Guns, Germs and Steel

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Saving money turns out to be the universal application, ... That's why Wal-Mart is as big as Wal-Mart is.

It is the worst of times but it is the best of times because we still have a chance.