Collapse (edit title)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Collapse 2 weeks ago.

• Added a contributor: Jared Diamond: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to change the title of Collapse Saturday, November 7 2009.

Ulrich changed the title of Collapse Friday, November 6 2009.

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 5 books, including Collapse, Friday, August 28 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Collapse Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from Easter Island and the Maya to Viking Greenland and modern Montana, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe—one whose warning signs can be seen in our modern world and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Collapse Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Jared Diamond:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Collapse Friday, July 17 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jared Diamond: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Collapse Friday, July 17 2009.

• A few summers ago I visited two dairy farms, Huls Farm and Gardar Farm, which despite being located thousands of miles apart were still remarkably similar in their strengths and vulnerabilities.

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 5 books, including Collapse, Saturday, July 4 2009.