Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, by Guns, Germs, and Steel author Jared Diamond, is a bold investigation of the puzzling demise of ancient civilizations.
Jared Diamond's Collapse, now in a revised version with a new afterword, reveals the truth about why some societies succeed while others fail, and what this means for the future.
Who created the sad, long-abandoned monuments on Easter Island, and what became of them?
Who designed the deteriorating Maya pyramids, and what became of them?
Will we follow the same path, leaving our towers to become abandoned and overgrown like the Angkor Wat temples in the future?
assembling fresh data from a stunning variety of sources and connecting the many impacts, from culture to climate,...
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