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Full description for Collapse    • From the author of "Guns,
Germs and Steel", Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies
Choose to Fail or Survive" is a visionary study of the
mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised
edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's "Collapse"
uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while
others founder - and what this means for our future. What
happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned
statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the
crumbling Maya pyramids? 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, Jared Diamond's "Collapse" also shows how - unlike ou