- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Penguin UK; Latest Edition edition (1 January 2013)
- ISBN-10: 9780241958681
- ISBN-13: 978-0241958681
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm
- 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 our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.
- 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail
- 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer
- 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis
- 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times