Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

by JaredDiamond (Author)

Synopsis

From groundbreaking writer and thinker, Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, "Collapse" also shows how unlike our ancestors we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 616
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 26 Jan 2006

ISBN 10: 0140279512
ISBN 13: 9780140279511
Prizes: Shortlisted for Aventis General Prize for Science Books 2006.

Author Bio
Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until recently he was Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, which also is the winner of Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.