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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
As Kay Jewelers, Zales, and Jared stores were forced to temporarily close across the country, many customers were left without the jewelry they had brought in to locations for repair. Since ...
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) [1] is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant , and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books .
The book Questioning Collapse (Cambridge University Press, 2010) is a collection of essays by fifteen archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and historians criticizing various aspects of Diamond's books Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and Guns, Germs and Steel. [28]
A large buildup of rainwater from Tropical Storm Debby caused the roof to collapse at a well-known BP convenience store, located at 1610 Fording Island Road just before the Hilton Head bridges.
Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire is a 2009 non-fiction book compiled by editors Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee that features a series of eleven essays from fifteen authors discussing how societies have developed, evolved, and whether they have or have not collapsed throughout history, with a focus on how ancient and ...
Petit manuel de collapsologie à l’usage des générations présentes [3] (How everything can collapse: A manual for our times), [4] published in 2015 in France. [5] It also developed into a movement when Jared Diamond's text Collapse was published. [2]
Jared Diamond (born 10 September 1937) is an American scientist and author. Trained in physiology , and having published on ecology , anthropology , and linguistics , [ 1 ] Diamond's work is known for drawing from a variety of fields.