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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Diamond, Jared
by Diamond, Jared | PB | Acceptable
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0143036556
- Book Title
- Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- Civilization, Anthropology / General, World
- Item Weight
- 17.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 592 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143036556
ISBN-13
9780143036555
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038265716
Product Key Features
Book Title
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, Anthropology / General, World
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
304.2/8
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
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., In his runaway bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from Easter Island and the Maya to Viking Greenland and modern Montana, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of environmental catastropheone whose warning signs can be seen in our modern world and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances into a narrative that is impossible to put down, "Collapse" exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future. Diamonds most influential gift may be his ability to write about geopolitical and environmental systems in ways that dont just educate and provoke, but entertain. "The Seattle Times" Extremely persuasive . . . replete with fascinating stories, a treasure trove of historical anecdotes [and] haunting statistics. "The Boston Globe" Extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in [its] ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. "The New York Times Book Review"
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- May 13, 2019
Good analysis of collapsed civilizations
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