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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

By: Diamond, Jared

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 58369

ISBN: 0143117009

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By: Diamond, Jared

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc.: December 2004

Seller ID: 113581

ISBN: 0670033375

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that were pivotal to their demise. 250,000 first printing.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

By: Diamond, Jared M.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: April 1999

Seller ID: 50132

ISBN: 0393317552

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunni...
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