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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143117009
ISBN-139780143117001
eBay Product ID (ePID)102772315
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Book TitleCollapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicCivilization, Future Studies, Sociology / General, Social History, Anthropology / General, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
IllustratorYes
FeaturesRevised
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorJared Diamond
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-290440
Reviews"Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling." -- The New York Times "... Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm." -- Businessweek " Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and formed arguments with such care." -- Gregg Easterbrook , The New York Times Book Review, "Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling." -- The New York Times "... Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm." -- Businessweek " Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and formed arguments with such care." -- Gregg Easterbrook , The New York Times Book Review
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisIn Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel , the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel , Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?, In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel , the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel , Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
LC Classification NumberHN13.D5 2011
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- 25. Jul. 2017
Preparing for our collapse
Great examples of cultures that experienced a collapse such as the Anaxazi and the Mayans. It compels the reader to examine modern civilization's threats of soil erosion and deforestation exacerbated by climate change. We can learn from the past...Bestätigter Kauf: Ja
- 19. Feb. 2018
Great Author!!!
Educating and very interesting.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
