Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. He shows us how nations have survived defining upheavals in the recent past. Looking ahead...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself...

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...

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?"As he did in...

"The best baseball book I've read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball Prospectus From the Wall Street Journal's national...

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native...

"Der dritte Schimpanse" von Jared Diamond ist eine faszinierende Untersuchung der einzigartigen Eigenschaften des Menschen im Tierreich. Diamond, ein renommierter Geograph und Biologe, argumentiert, dass wir genetisch betrachtet nur eine...

Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our...

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME¿s best non-fiction books of all time, the number-one international bestseller Collapse, and most recently The World Until...