Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
From
the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the
mysterious downfall of past civilizations.
Now in a revised
edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the
secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and
what this means for our future.
'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'
Economist
'This book shines like all Diamond's work'
Sunday Times
Jared Diamond (b. 1937) 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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| Anteprima |
- 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?
'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'
Economist
'This book shines like all Diamond's work'
Sunday Times
Jared Diamond (b. 1937) 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.
