Collapse - by Jared Diamond (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning <i>Guns, Germs and Steel</i>, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of <i>Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis</i></b></p><p><br>Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in <b>Guns, Germs, and Steel</b>, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. <p/>Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, <b>Collapse</b> 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? <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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. --<b>The New York Times</b><p>...<b>Collapse</b> is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm. --<b>Businessweek</b></p><p><b>Guns, Germs, and Steel</b> and <b>Collapse</b> 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. --<b>Gregg Easterbrook</b>, <b>The New York Times Book Review</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jared Diamond</b> 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 include <i>Why Is Sex Fun?</i>, <i>The Third Chimpanzee</i>, <i>Collapse</i>, <i>The World Until Yesterday, </i> and <i>Guns, Germs, and Steel</i>, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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