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fascinating - [08 Mar 2010]
everyone should read this book. it isn't as accessible as 'guns germs...' but every bit as good.
good.
www.amazon.com/review/R2SFRXXDY...
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An impressive, wide-ranging look at human societies and their impacts on their environments - [28 Feb 2010]
This is a thorough book with an impressive scope. It is clearly written and dispassionately and convincingly argued throughout. Essential reading for anyone interested in either society, anthropology, politics or the environment.
and convincingly argued throughout. Essential reading for anyone interested in either society...
www.amazon.com/review/R9JQOMGM8...
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One of the most significant books of our time - [12 Dec 2009]
www.amazon.com/review/R3UPAXYLAAFTWB...
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Plates missing from the Kindle edition - [25 Nov 2009]
This (excellent) book comes with two sets of images: 1) maps of the places where the different societies mentioned lived (Easter Island, Australia, Greenland, China, etc.) and 2) Sets of plates with 40 or so additional photos. The maps are included in...
societies mentioned lived (Easter Island, Australia, Greenland, China, etc.) and 2) Sets...
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Buen argumento, puede resumirse - [19 Nov 2009]
Esta es una obra demasiado extensa y repetitiva que pudiera resumirese en una cuarta parte de su contenido. Basicamente el autor nos muestra sociedades desparecidas (Mayas, Anazasi, Isla de Pascua, Groenlandia y otras) para ilustarnos como el abuso en...
de su contenido. Basicamente el autor nos muestra sociedades desparecidas (Mayas, Anazasi,...
www.amazon.com/review/R25X9ARXW...
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Collapse of the metanarrative - [27 Sep 2009]
"Collapse" by Jared Diamond is a book about how civilizations deal (or fail to deal) with impending environmental disasters. The author is a director of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). In the book, he takes as on a grand tour through Polynesia, Central...
impending environmental disasters. The author is a director of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF...
www.amazon.com/review/R2FL25O9E...
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Dull - [04 Mar 2009]
This book was assigned to me for a course in Sustainability, it brings you through thousands and thousands of years of collapsed societies based on five main points. It was the same story over and over about a different society. The whole book was very...
and thousands of years of collapsed societies based on five main points. It was the same...
www.amazon.com/review/R3MYHPKPLWNBAX...
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Scholastic - [04 Mar 2009]
I'm a fan of Diamond's stuff. Collapse wasn't as easy a read. It is very extensive and borders on being a course book for an Anthropology class, and can be very dry at times. Each society he looks at (most of them long historic) is looked at in excruciating...
on being a course book for an Anthropology class, and can be very dry at times. Each society...
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Read this book. - [15 Dec 2008]
This comprehensive look at humanity's impact on our environments (past and present) is a critical read for everyone alive today. I found it so important that I bought five copies and sent them to family and friends. The first chapter is pretty slow--though...
read for everyone alive today. I found it so important that I bought five copies and...
www.amazon.com/review/R25LGNFGK...
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As Turgid As Gray Oatmeal (It won't let me give it less than 5, 1 STAR 1 STAR) - [06 Dec 2008]
Unreadable, though Jared Diamond is brilliant, his rambling often monotonous descriptions of ancient civilization are hard to follow due to the unceasingly clunky prose style. It doesn't help that the first chapter is about Montana, AHH!
of ancient civilization are hard to follow due to the unceasingly clunky prose style. It doesn...
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