Collapse

How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

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Beschreibung

From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.<br>Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future.<br><br>What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island?<br>What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids?<br>Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat?<br><br>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, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.<br><br>'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail<br><br>'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer<br><br>'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis<br><br>'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241958681

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)