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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Book by Jared Diamond
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social... Wikipedia
Originally published: December 2004
ISBN: 0-14-303655-6
Pages: 592
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Collapse by Jared Diamond accurately discusses the concept of societies failing to thrive and falling apart. Within the book, Diamond analyzes societies of the ...
While the bulk of the book is concerned with the demise of these historical civilizations, Diamond also argues that humanity collectively faces, on a much ...
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This well-written book describes the good and the bad in our world and tells the reader exactly what can be done to alter the course of our societies so that ...
Sep 26, 2018 · The overall thesis is interesting; that successful societies can destroy themselves by poor decision making and hubris. Being American, this is ...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is my fourth book written for a broad public. It was first published in 2005, a revised edition with an ...
Page 1. Page 2. COLLAPSE. HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE. TO FAIL OR SUCCEED ... Greenland Norse society collapsed completely: its thousands of inhabi- tants starved to ...
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This exhaustive study in Malthusian economics as applied to several societies in history that have failed, such as the Easter Islanders and Greenland Norse, ...
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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...
Jan 30, 2005 · COLLAPSE How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. By Jared Diamond. Illustrated. 575 pp. Viking. $29.95.
Jared Diamond's “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” is a follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning book “Guns, Germs and Steel”.