"Guns, Germs and Steel" Author on Campus:  Wed., Nov. 14

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California State University Channel Islands presents the annual Campus Reading Celebration featuring Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14. (Note: doors open for this event at 6 p.m.) The event will be held in Salon A on the CSUCI campus. A book-signing will follow Diamond’s presentation.

Reservations are required for this event and may be made online at http://www.library.csuci.edu/celebration/2007/register.php. Reservations also may be made by calling 805-437-8598. The cost to attend the event is $10 for community members and $5 for non-CSUCI students. Admission for CSUCI students, faculty, and staff is free. However, everyone planning on attending must make a reservation.

Free parking and a free shuttle service to and from the campus will be available from the Camarillo Metrolink Station/Lewis Road parking lot in Camarillo from 5 to 10 p.m. There is a limited amount of parking available on campus and is $6 for a daily permit. There will be way-finding signage on campus directing attendees to parking and the event.

Guns, Germs, and Steel is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller. Diamond’s book details a global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Diamond, professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine, also is the author of the best-selling and award-winning The Third Chimpanzee. He has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines.

For more information about the Campus Reading Celebration contact Amber Weir, events coordinator, 805-437-8548 or amber.weir@csuci.edu.