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

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Civilizations Rise and Fall #2

Jared Diamond

576 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could such mighty societies fall? And could our skyscrapers...

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