Product Information
The No.1 International Bestseller that has sold over 15,000 hardbacks and over 165,000 paperbacks (Vista) and counting From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword, 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780241958681
eBay Product ID (ePID)109210254
Product Key Features
Number of Pages608 Pages
Publication NameCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAnthropology, History
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
AuthorJared Diamond
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight450 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJared Diamond