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

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond This book is USED (not new) Condition: - Format: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Books, , 2005 Dimensions: 5.08 x 1.02 x 7.8 inches, pages SKU: 5534ad - We use NZ Post overnight for delivery so please allow 1-5 days for delivery - If you would like to see more photos of the book, ask a question and we'll add them Book Description: 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.