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- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “As new trade paperback. Photo is actual copy.”
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143117001
- Book Title
- Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Civilization, Future Studies, Sociology / General, Social History, Anthropology / General, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 608 Pages
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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. 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?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143117009
ISBN-13
9780143117001
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102772315
Product Key Features
Book Title
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Civilization, Future Studies, Sociology / General, Social History, Anthropology / General, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hn13.D5 2011
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
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Up
Edition Description
Revised Edition
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
Copyright Date
2011
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2011-290440
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