Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Jared Diamond

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
7 October 2011
Pages
608
ISBN
9780241958681

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Jared Diamond

The No.1 International Bestseller that has sold over 15,000 hardbacks and over 165,000 paperbacks (Vista) and counting

From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword, on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or 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?

Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Collapse also shows how unlike our ancestors we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.

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