Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond joins Larry Mantle to talk about his new book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking), in which he shows how societies historically have ...

Prologue : a tale of two farms -- pt. 1: Modern Montana. Under Montana's big sky -- pt. 2: Past societies. Twilight at Easter -- The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- The ancient ...

In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or ...

This year, Diamond published a book that looks at the demise of civilizations. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed examines, among others, the disappeared cultures of Easter Island, the ...

"At what point do we as individuals prefer to die than to compromise and live?" This alarming question lies at the heart of "Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed" (Viking, 575 pages, ...

How could a civilization that mastered the planet suddenly Collapse? Inspired by the New York Times best-selling book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", NGC time travels 200 years ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Susan Diamond is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2007 Forum. Jared Diamond was interviewed by his sister Susan Diamond about ...

In a world that celebrates live journalism, we are increasingly in need of big-picture authors like Jared Diamond, who think historically and spatially -- across an array of disciplines -- to make ...

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A game ranger friend tells me that hyena attacks on humans, previously unheard of, have become increasingly common. “So many babies, not all of them dead, are being dumped in the bush that hyenas have ...