Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed - Rilegato

Diamond, Jared

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ISBN 10: 0670033375 ISBN 13: 9780670033379

Casa editrice: Viking Pr, 2004

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling." —The New York Times
"...Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm." —Businessweek
"Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and formed arguments with such care." —Gregg Easterbrook, The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

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 includeWhy Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, andGuns, Germs, and Steel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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• Editore: Viking Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670033375
• ISBN 13: 9780670033379
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 575