Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Nathan Titus - GoodreadsThis is a low 5 star rating because at times it was dry and hard to read. But that is most likely my own bias and not any fault of Diamond's; I've always had trouble with non-fiction. He has very good ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - bbbbbbrr - GoodreadsPop science book with some of interesting facts, stories, useful ideas. It devotes a lot of time to looking at societies interact with and are ultimately affected by their environment and resources ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - MJ - GoodreadsJared Diamond is, of course, famous for his Pulitzer prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" that proposes a theory on the success and failure of societies relative to one another determined ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Patrick C - GoodreadsI simply don't believe the Vikings didn't eat fish. Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Patrick - GoodreadsI simply don't believe the Vikings didn't eat fish. Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Jack - GoodreadsVery Good --- His account of why societies 'choose' to succeed or fail. Five factors: negative environmental impacts, man's negative effect on environment, friendly neighbors, hostile neighbors, man's ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Rodrigo - GoodreadsExcellent read, if you are ok with Mr. Diamond's style and lots of references, citations, and footnotes. It does repeat itself a bit, but it seems to me with the purpose to establish additional ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Thesexycaptain - GoodreadsAnother must-read. Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Henry - GoodreadsA long time ago I owned Jared Diamond's Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, a zoological appraisal of humanity, and as such a worthy successor to Desmond Morris's old classic The Naked Ape. I read ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - GoodreadsFantastic! This should be required reading for everyone - especially anyone that claims that "man doesn't have the power to change the weather or his environment". This book is a series of case ...
