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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Revised Edition)

Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives.

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Jared Diamond
2011
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world.

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Jared Diamond
2017
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face.

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Jared Diamond
2020
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Natural Experiments of History

Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past.

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Jared Diamond (editor), James A. Robinson (editor)
2011
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others.

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Jared Diamond
2013
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