Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Collapse
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Verteld door:
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Michael Prichard
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Van:
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Jared Diamond
As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving 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, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. 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.
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse 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?
Look out for Jared Diamond's latest book, The World Until Yesterday, coming from Viking in January 2013.
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"...Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm." —Businessweek
"Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse 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." —Gregg Easterbrook, The New York Times Book Review
Informative and inspiring
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It's not too late to learn what Jared has to teach us.
Still the most comprehensive account out there
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In spite of its inspiring argumentation, the book does not reach the "eureka" moment of the first book and only classifies the rules that were already implied in the previous work. But I feel guilty to boost with knowledge that is not my own, but for which the author of this book was my inspiration. As such, I would recommend this book as a second go for a splendid bottle of wine of the same millesime: an additional moment to enjoy and an acknowledgment that indeed it is a good wine.
The rules of the game
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Good explanations of difficult topics supported by lots of interesting factsWas wäre für andere Hörer sonst noch hilfreich zu wissen, um das Hörbuch richtig einschätzen zu können?
Sometimes a little too detailed and the author tends to reiterate his favorite points a little too oftern.Very interesting but certainly not easy listening
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The author is balanced in his views, and presents multiple views on every topic. Really great stuff!
Great book, great speaker...best I've listened to
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