Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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  • Jared Mason Diamond
  • Author:  Jared Mason Diamond
  • Year: 07-08-2007
  • Translator from English: Yulian Antonov
  • Availability:  Out Of Stock
  • Product Code:  339-01
  • SKU: 11.0062
  • ISBN: 978-954-321-347-4

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In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization

Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

About the Author

Jared Mason Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American ecologist, geographer, biologist, anthropologist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Ger... Read more

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Tags: Anthropology & Archeology, Prehistory & Evolution, Scientific Theories, Famous Scientists, Culturology

Specification
Year 07-08-2007
Translator from English: Yulian Antonov
Pages 776
Size 140/215 мм
Weight 1.23 kg
Cover Type Hardcover
Genre Anthropology & Archeology, Prehistory & Evolution, Scientific Theories, Famous Scientists, Culturology

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