Collapse by Jared Diamond - ISBN: 9780241958681
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Ancient collapses echo: Can we learn to survive, or repeat history?

Collapse

How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

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  • Paperback

    608 pages

  • Release Date

    7 October 2011

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Summary

The No.1 International Bestseller that has sold over 15,000 hardbacks and over 165,000 paperbacks and counting.

From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword, 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 t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241958681
ISBN-10:0241958687
Author:Jared Diamond
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:608
Release Date:7 October 2011
Weight:466g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 30mm
About The Author

Jared Diamond

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.

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