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

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Civilizations Rise and Fall #2

Jared Diamond

608 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?In his million-copy bestsel...

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