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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed by Diamond, Jared M
- Bookseller: gigabooks
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 104985
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0670033375
- ISBN 13: 9780670033379
- Publisher: Viking Pr
- Place: New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date published: 2005
- Pages: 575
- Size: 7.25 x 10 x 2.25 inches
- Weight: 2.1 pounds
Description
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr, 2005. Hard Cover -- FINE/FINE -- Book and dust jacket are clean and bright with only slightest of shelf wear.. First Edition w/full # string and original price of 29.95 still present.. ISBN: 0670033375. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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Book summary
Jared Diamond--a modern-day Gibbon with a scientific perspective--has created a study of the decline and fall of civilizations and societies that holds many lessons. In GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL, Diamond offered new and insightful reasons for the rise of civilizations; here he studies their fall, or collapse. His case studies include, among others, the once technologically-advanced Mayans, the Anasazi in North America, the Easter Island inhabitants, and the Vikings, showing how environment and bad decisions were often factors in their collapse. Diamond believes that the actions of humans can halt or prevent decline, as he shows in the case of modern-day Japan, which has embarked on ambitious reforesting--and, importantly, Jared says the signs are there long before the collapse. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005.
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