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Physical description: xi, 575 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Social change. Social history. Human ecology.
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In Collapse, Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandonded statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All saw their cultures collapse because of environmental crises. And it looks as if those crises were self-induced.
As in his celebrated global best-seller Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond brings together new evidence from a startling range of sources to tell a story with epic scope. And he lends it urgency for the modern world by probing the roots of decisions which allowed some societies to avoid ecological catastrophe, while others succumbed. How, he asks, can we learn to be survivors?
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Jared Diamond was born in Boston to a physician father and a teacher/musician/linguist mother. After training in laboratory biological science he became Professor of Physiology at UCLA Medical School in 1966. However, already while in his twenties, he also developed a second parallel career in the ecology and evolution of New Guinea birds. That led him to explore some of the most remote parts of that great tropical island, and to rediscover New Guinea's long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird. In his fifties he gradually developed a third career in environmental history, becoming Professor of Geography and of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA.
As well as being renowned in academic circles, Jared Diamond is famous for his prize-winning books The Third Chimpanzee and Why is Sex Fun?, and for revolutionizing the study of global human history with Guns, Germs and Steel. His awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (a 'genius award'), and the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. The broad range of disciplines that he weaves into his writing - linguistics, genetics, animal behaviour, molecular biology and others - caused a reviewer to write, ' "Jared Diamond" is suspected of actually being the pseudonym for a committee of experts.' In his spare time he watches birds and learns languages (he is currently learning his twelfth). He is the father of seventeen-year-old twin sons who have informed much of his outlook on life.
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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. In Collapse, Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandonded statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All saw their cultures collapse because of environmental crises. And it looks as if those crises were self-induced. As in his celebrated global best-seller Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond brings together new evidence from a startling range of sources to tell a story with epic scope. And he lends it urgency for the modern world by probing the roots of decisions which allowed some societies to avoid ecological catastrophe, while others succumbed. How, he asks, can we learn to be survivors? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR001309533
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condición: Gut. First Edition. XI, 575 p. leichte Gebrauchsspuren am Schutzumschlag, Kopfschnitt leicht angeschmutzt, sonst guter Zustand und innen sauber, beiliegend einige Artikel zum Autor / light wear to dust jacket, top edge slightly soiled, otherwise good condition and clean inside, enclosed some articles about the author. - New Classic / From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn, long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or 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? Many cultures have disintegrated, Jared Diamond reveals, because of environmental crises - and most of these crises were self-induced. Taking us on a rich, compelling journey through history, Diamond travels the globe from Haiti to New Guinea, Iceland to the Pacific islands, to explore the fates of our ancestors. Why, he asks, did the Vikings who once colonized Greenland eventually starve or flee? Why did the Anasazi build the tallest buildings in the United States and then abandon them? Who left the strange monuments that the Bounty's mutineers discovered on the Pitcairn Islands - and why? Diamond also ranges over today's world: how the tiny island Tikopia has thrived against all odds for thousands of years; why the big- sky country of Montana is a ticking ecological time-bomb; and what role today's big business conglomerates have to play. 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, Collapse also shows how, unlike our ancestors, we can benefit from our knowledge of the past - and learn to be survivors. / CONTENTS List of Maps Prologue: A Tale of Two Farms Two farms Collapses, past and present Vanished Edens? A five-point framework Businesses and the environment The comparative method Plan of the book PartOne: MODERN MONTANA Chapter 1: Under Montana's Big Sky Stan Falkow's story Montana and me Why begin with Montana? Montana's economic history Mining Forests Soil Water Native and non-native species Differing visions Attitudes towards regulation Rick Laible's story Chip Pigman's story Tim Huls's story John Cook's story Montana, model of the world PartTwo: PAST SOCIETIES Chapter 2: Twilight at Easter The quarry's mysteries Easter's geography and history People and food Chiefs, clans, and commoners Platforms and statues Carving, transporting, erecting The vanished forest Consequences for society Europeans and explanations Why was Easter fragile? Easter as metaphor Chapter 3: The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands Pitcairn before the Bounty Three dissimilar islands Trade The movie's ending Chapter 4: The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors Desert farmers Tree rings Agricultural strategies Chaco's problems and packrats Regional integration Chaco's decline and end Chaco's message Chapter 5: The Maya Collapses Mysteries of lost cities The Maya environment * Maya agriculture Maya history Copan Complexities of collapses Wars and droughts Collapse in the southern lowlands The Maya message Chapter 6: The Viking Prelude and Fugues Experiments in the Atlantic The Viking explosion Autocatalysis Viking agriculture Iron Viking chiefs Viking religion Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes Iceland's environment Iceland's history Iceland in context Vinland Chapter 7: Norse Greenland's Flowering Europe's outpost Greenland's climate today Climate in the past Native plants and animals Norse settlement Farming Hunting and fishing An integrated economy Society Trade with Europe Self-image Chapter 8: Norse Greenland's End Introduction to the end Deforestation Soil and turf damage The Inuit's predecessors Inuit subsistence Inuit/Norse relations The end Ultimate causes of the end Chapter 9: Opposite Paths to Success Bottom up, top down New Guinea highlands Tikopia Tokugawa problems Tokugawa solutions Why Japan succeeded Other successes Part Three: MODERN SOCIETIES Chapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's Genocide A dilemma Events in Rwanda More than ethnic hatred Buildup in Kanama Explosion in Kanama Why it happened Chapter 11: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: The Dominican Republic and Haiti Differences Histories Causes of divergence Dominican environmental impacts Balaguer The Dominican environment today The future Chapter 12: China, Lurching Giant China's significance Background Air, water, soil Habitat, species, megaprojects Consequences Connections The future Chapter 13: "Mining" Australia Australia's significance Soils Water Distance Early history Imported values Trade and immigration Land degradation Other environmental problems Signs of hope and change Part Four: PRACTICAL LESSONS Chapter 14: Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? Road map for success Failure to anticipate Failure to perceive Rational bad behavior Disastrous values Other irrational failures Unsuccessful solutions Signs of hope Chapte 15: Big Businesses and the Environment: Different Conditions, Different Outcomes Resource extraction Two oil fields Oil company motives Hardrock mining operations Mining company motives Differences among mining companies The logging industry Forest Stewardship Council The seafood industry Businesses and the public Chapter 16: The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean to Us Today? Introduction The most serious problems If we don't solve them Life in Los Angeles One-liner objections The past and the present Reasons for hope. ISBN 9780713992861 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1071. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1208020
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