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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Autor Jared Diamond
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2011
From the author ofGuns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond'sCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Surviveis a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.

Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond'sCollapseuncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future.

What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island?
What happened 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, Jared Diamond'sCollapsealso shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.

'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' -Daily Mail

'Riveting, superb, terrifying' -Observer

'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' -Economis

'This book shines like all Diamond's work' -Sunday Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241958681
ISBN-10: 0241958687
Pagini: 608
Ilustrații: Illus., Maps
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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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In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.