Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised EditionPenguin, 2011 M01 4 - 608 páginas In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, 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 Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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Contenido
MODERN MONTANA | 25 |
PAST SOCIETIES | 77 |
The Last People Alive Pitcairn and Henderson Islands | 120 |
The Ancient Ones The Anasazi and Their Neighbors | 136 |
The Maya Collapses | 157 |
The Viking Prelude and Fugues | 178 |
Norse Greenlands Flowering | 211 |
Norse Greenlands End | 248 |
China Lurching Giant | 358 |
Mining Australia | 378 |
PRACTICAL LESSONS | 417 |
Big Businesses and the Environment | 441 |
The World as a Polder What Does It All Mean | 486 |
Angkors Rise and Fall | 526 |
Acknowledgments | 540 |
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Opposite Paths to Success | 277 |
MODERN SOCIETIES | 309 |
One Island Two Peoples Two Histories | 329 |
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Illustration Credits | 590 |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition Jared Diamond Vista previa limitada - 2011 |