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From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamonds Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. n n Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamonds Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. n n What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? n What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? n Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? n n 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, Jared Diamonds Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. n n A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race - Daily Mail n n Riveting, superb, terrifying - Observer n n Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it - Economis n n This book shines like all Diamonds work - Sunday Times n
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