Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive

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Sinopse

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? And 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.

Participantes

Autor: Jared Diamond

Autor

JARED DIAMOND

Jared Mason Diamond (10 de setembro de 1937, Boston) é um biólogo evolucionário, fisiologista, biogeógrafo e autor de não-ficção estado-unidense. Ele é mais conhecido pelo seu livro Guns, Germs, and Steel (Armas, germes e aço no Brasil, 1997), vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer.