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【曾經的光輝文明為何淪為今日的遺跡？】
✦《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》作者洞察文明之作
雕刻出復活島摩艾石像的民族最後面臨什麼樣的命運？建造出壯觀的階梯型金字塔的馬雅人為何衰落？現今城市中的摩天大樓是否也將成為如同吳哥窟的荒廢建築群？我們是否將踏上同樣的道路？
賈德．戴蒙在這本書中結合來自廣泛領域的證據，綜觀文化與生態環境造成的影響，深入檢視文明為何走入自我毀滅的末路，並反思現代社會，提出人類應當如何提取過往經驗，將其化為知識，幫助我們在未來不再重蹈覆轍。
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 Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future.
What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island?
What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids?
Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat?
Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail
'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer
'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis
'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times
