Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Diamond, Jared

ISBN 10: 0670033375 / ISBN 13: 9780670033379

Published by Penguin Group USA Inc., 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670033375
• ISBN 13: 9780670033379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by The Rockefeller University. His previous books include Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and Guns, Germs, and Steel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.