Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Civilizations Rise and Fall #2

Jared Diamond

608 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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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. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-aband...

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