Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Healthy Food plus plenty of special-occasion dishes

plus plenty of special-occasion dishes you can whip up to impress a crowd

Gary Ceran shares his realization that the Lord not only prepared him for the trials he would face but also healed him from his sorrow and blessed him abundantly

and so he is

Inspiring a long line of detective stories and Whodunnits

the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion prove lasting comrades

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Healthy Food plus plenty of special-occasion dishesIn this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter gatherer stage, and then developed religion as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A