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    • Vivid examples that changed my perspective on "recent", historical, and pre-historical events. For example, I saw the genocide in Rwanda in a different light after reading this book. And, I found the section on Greenland fascinating, especially given recent reports that with climate change the Green ... Continue

      Vivid examples that changed my perspective on "recent", historical, and pre-historical events. For example, I saw the genocide in Rwanda in a different light after reading this book. And, I found the section on Greenland fascinating, especially given recent reports that with climate change the Greenlanders are able to change their farming practices now.

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    • A very accessible read and highly recommended for anyone.

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In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from Easter Island and the Maya to Viking Greenland and modern Montana, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe—one whose warning signs can be seen in our modern world and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances 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.

“Diamond's most influential gift may be his ability to write about geopolitical and environmental systems in ways that don't just educate and provoke, but entertain.” —The Seattle Times

“Extremely persuasive . . . replete with fascinating stories, a treasure trove of historical anecdotes [and] haunting statistics.” —The Boston Globe

“Extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in [its] ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Paperback 592 Pages
ISBN-10: 0140279512
ISBN-13: 9780140279511
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date: Jan 26, 2006
Dimensions: 19 cm x 13 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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