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"In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations rec[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-00343-5 Article en page(s) : IX, 500 p. Index. décimale : 303.48409 Tags : Social history--Case studies ; Social change--Case studies ; Crisis management--Case studies ; Civilization--History ; Disasters--Forecasting ; Disasters--Political aspects ; Social change--History Langues: Anglais Books
Who Hasn't Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond--whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding[...]
Mention d'édition : Rev. Ed. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-311700-1 Article en page(s) : XII, 589 p. Index. décimale : 304.28 Tags : Environmental policy ; Social change ; Social history ; Social history--Case studies ; Social change--Case studies ; Environmental policy--Case studies ; Civilization ; Anthropology Langues: Anglais Books
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 Col[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-241-95868-1 Article en page(s) : XII, 589 p. Catégories : Index. décimale : 304.2 Tags : Social history -- Case studiesSocial change -- Case studies.,Environmental policy -- Case studies.,Histoire sociale -- Études de cas.,Changement social -- Études de cas.,Politique de l'environnement -- Études de cas.,Civilisation -- Philosophie -- Études de cas.,Nature -- Effets de l'homme -- Études de cas.,Écologie humaine -- Études de cas.,Décadence.,Climat --Changements.,Évolution sociale Langues: Anglais Books
A few summers ago I visited two dairy farms, Huls Farm and Gardar Farm, which despite being located thousands of miles apart were still remarkably similar in their strengths and vulnerabilities. Both were by far the largest, most prosperous, mos[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-670-03337-9 Article en page(s) : 570 p. Tags : Societies ; population (E) ; Habitat (Ecology) ; Human beings ; Failed states Langues: Anglais Books
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Euro[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-09-930278-0 Article en page(s) : 480 p. Index. décimale : 303.4 Tags : Social evolution ; Civilization--History ; Ethnology ; Human beings--Effect of environment on ; Culture diffusion Langues: Anglais Electronic document
Keywords : SOCIETIES; CHOOSE; FAIL; SUCCEED; Autocatalysis; World; population; People;Habitat; Abstract : A few summers ago I visited two dairy farms, Huls Farm and Gardar Farm, which despite being located thousands of miles apart were still re[...]
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-670-03337-9 Langues: Anglais