| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140279512 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0140279511 |
| No of pages | 575 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Published Date | 26 Jan 2006 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140279512 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0140279511 |
| No of pages | 575 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Published Date | 26 Jan 2006 |
This is the personal website of Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography.
He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical society.
Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan’s Cosmo Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize Honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by Rockefeller University.
He has published more than six hundred articles and his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future.
Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat?
Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Collapse also shows how unlike our ancestors we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.