Jared Diamond | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Recorded Jan 15, 2005
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20050115-jareddi.mp3
In Collapse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel considers the collapse of some of history's greatest civilizations, including Viking, Anasazi, and Mayan, in the context of contemporary crises of cultural survival, including our own.
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