W. W. Norton, New York, 1999, reprint.  ISBN 0-393-31755-2.  Trade soft cover, 496 pages including Acknowledgments, Further Readings, Credits, Index, and About the Author and Discussion Questions.  Very good; very light edge and cover wear, touch of soil on bottom edge.  Binding tight; interior clean and unmarked with black & white maps, photo plates, tables and illustrations.  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.  ‘This is a brilliantly written, passionate, whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of history on all the continents – a short history of everything about everybody.  The origins of empires, religion, writing, crops, and guns are all here.  By at last providing a convincing explanation for the differing developments of human societies on different continents, the book demolishes the grounds for racist theories of history.’ (from rear wrap)