Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

English

ISBN: 0143117009

EAN: 9780143117001

Category: Social Science / Sociology / General/Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy/History / Social History/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/19/2011

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Who Hasnt Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond-whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history-explores how humankinds use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the worlds great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What emerges is a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe-one whose warning signs surround us today and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances and a vast historical perspective into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future. Book jacket.

Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 1.38 inches

Width: 5.6 inches

Length: 8.6 inches

Weight: 18.77 oz

Pages: 608