Collapse - how societies achieve failure or success (eBook, ePUB)
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"A great effort is based on a deep understanding, clearly and enthusiastic, it is also the most prominent book for this year, which rewards an annual academic curriculum by a specialized and shiny professor, all for the price of a book." Business Week. Whoever is not surprised when he saw the abandoned temples in Angkor Watt or the Mayan cities wrapped in the bush, and asks: "Can we receive the same fate?" In this interesting book, Gard Diamond - whose book (Weapons, Bathms and Mesh) revolutionizes a revolution in our understanding of history - how human use and their exploitation of the envir...
"A great effort is based on a deep understanding, clearly and enthusiastic, it is also the most prominent book for this year, which rewards an annual academic curriculum by a specialized and shiny professor, all for the price of a book." Business Week. Whoever is not surprised when he saw the abandoned temples in Angkor Watt or the Mayan cities wrapped in the bush, and asks: "Can we receive the same fate?" In this interesting book, Gard Diamond - whose book (Weapons, Bathms and Mesh) revolutionizes a revolution in our understanding of history - how human use and their exploitation of the environment reveals the reality of the great collapses in the world, from Al -Anasazi in North America, to the Vikings in Greenland, to contemporary Montana. . What emanates is a basic form of an environmental catastrophe that surrounds us with its warning references today and we ignore it despite our exposure. By mixing with contemporary scientific facts and a historical viewpoint in a narration that one is impossible to set aside, the collapse reveals the burial secrets of the past even when there is hope for the future. "Diamond's most prominent talent may be his ability to write about geo-political and environmental systems in ways not only learn and excite, but also entertaining." Seattle Times. "Very convincing ... full of amazing stories, a precious collection of rare historical tales" and "exciting statistics". Boston Globe. "It must be read ..." "The collapse shows that flexible societies are graceful, can plan in the long run and abandon the values ¿¿and fundamental beliefs deeply implanted in them, but they eventually destroy them." Natur. "There are messages of hope for collapse. With the help of Diamond, we may learn to see our problems more clearly before we cut the last palm tree. " Time. "A comprehensive and wonderful ... Diamond described the complex history of how societies with their environment successfully dealt with or turned into a victim ... it took a long time of research, in an ordinary language, leading the reader to the trouble of a region that the media and journalists often refuse to reach it." Washington Post is
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