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  2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Wikipedia

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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."

  3. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Wikipedia

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary nonfiction book by the American author Jared Diamond.

  4. Jared Diamond - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Creeping normality - Wikipedia

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    Creeping normality (also called gradualism, or landscape amnesia [1]) is a process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens gradually through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change. The change could otherwise be regarded as remarkable and objectionable if it took hold suddenly or in a short time span.

  6. Societal collapse - Wikipedia

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    Jared Diamond suggested that Easter Island's society so destroyed their environment that by around 1600, their society had fallen into a downward spiral of warfare, cannibalism, and population decline. Historical theories have evolved from being purely social and ethical, to ideological and ethnocentric, and finally to multidisciplinary studies.

  7. Anna Karenina principle - Wikipedia

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    The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. [2] Diamond uses this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a great number of factors can render a species undomesticable.

  8. Rewatching 'My So-Called Life' 30 years later ... as a 'so ...

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    To this day, my friends and I still talk about the hours we spent dissecting every nuance of the show's almost visibly beating heart: Angela's crush on the magnetic, aloof, monosyllabic ...

  9. Upheaval (book) - Wikipedia

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    Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change is a 2019 nonfiction book by American scientist and historian Jared Diamond. [1] Diamond attempts to analyze devastating crises (political, economic, civil, ecological, etc.) that may destroy whole countries and the multiple reasons causing them.