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It reminds me of books like william rosens the most powerful idea in the world, and jared diamonds collapse. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth. Jared diamond guns germs and steel audiobook youtube. But it also boasts the same kind of inarguable psychohistorystyle postanalysis of such books. Listen to upheaval turning points for nations in crisis by jared diamond available from rakuten kobo. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biog. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Jared mason diamond born september 10, 1937 is an american geographer, historian, anthropologist, and author best known for his popular science books the third chimpanzee 1991. Guns, germs and steel audiobook jared diamond audible.
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Diamond weaves an allencompassing global thesis through a series of. Collapse 2005, the world until yesterday 2012, and upheaval 2019. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma. Originally trained in physiology, diamond is known for drawing from a variety of. A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others dont, by the author of the landmark bestsellers guns, germs, and steel and collapse. How societies choose to fail or succeed, ngc time travels 200. In his earlier best sellers guns, germs and steel and collapse, jared diamond t. Collapse is my third jared diamond book and, as before, he does not disappoint.
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