Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SurviveFrom 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

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