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Decline and fall.(Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed)(Book review)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond (Viking, 592 pp., $29.95)
Jared Diamond's bestselling Guns, Germs, and Steel argued that geography trumped culture, and that the current privileged position of the West was therefore mostly attributable to the advantageous resources in, and location of, Western countries, rather than to Europe's singular values. Despite the allure of such a politically correct exegesis--President Clinton endorsed the book wholeheartedly--there were numerous criticisms of this determinist idea of natural accidents resulting in the present-day dominance of the West. At some point a Cleisthenes, Plato, Augustine, ...
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- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books March 16, 2006 700+ words
...two-time winner of the award, Jared Diamond. Diamond has been nominated for his book Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. The award reportedly...Bodanis. According to The Guardian, Jared Diamond previously won the prize in 1998...
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- Magazine article from: OnEarth McKibben, Bill March 22, 2005 700+ words
COLLAPSE How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed BY JARED DIAMOND Viking, 576 pp., $29...other? Probably, says Jared Diamond, because the area contained...it's the question that Jared Diamond engages with wide-ranging...
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- Magazine article from: Habitat Australia August 1, 2005 700+ words
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Allen Lane RRP: $32.95 Environmental determinism...ugly reputation among academics. At first glance, Jared Diamond's book Collapse may seem to promote a deterministic...
- Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: History Today Black, Jeremy April 1, 2005 700+ words
Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive Jared Diamond Allen Lane xiii + 576 pp. 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 713 99286 7 JARED DIAMOND RANGES SKILFULLY through time and space to produce a series of ecological case-studies that demonstrate...
- Progress traps.(Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed)(A Short...
- Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal Peacock, Kent August 1, 2006 700+ words
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond. New York: Viking, 2005. A Short History of Progress...CBC Massey lectures, is the short version, while Jared Diamond's hefty Collapse supplies a generous helping of...
- Scarcity, crises and choice.(Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed...
- Magazine article from: Journal of International Affairs Goldstone, Jack A. March 22, 2006 700+ words
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond (New York: Viking, 2004), 592 pages. The title of Jared Diamond's new book is misleading, sounding like a melodramatic doomsayer's call to arms. A more truthful title for...
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Independent Review Shaw, Jane S. March 22, 2006 700+ words
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed By Jared Diamond New York: Viking, 2005. Pp. 592. $29.95 cloth...hundred pages of Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. The interior book is an effort...
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.(Brief Article)(Young Adult...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Theiss, Nola July 1, 2005 700+ words
COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED. Jared Diamond. 2004. Read by Christopher Murney. Abridged. 8 cds. 9.5 hrs. Penguin Audio. 0-14-305718-9. $34.95. Plastic...
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