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发表于2025-03-22
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In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? As in Guns, Germs, and Steel , Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society’s apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
贾雷德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond),加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授,美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士,是当代少数几位探究人类社会与文明的思想家之一。
戴蒙德的研究使他获奖无数,包括美国国家科学奖、美国 地理学会伯尔奖、泰勒环境贡献奖、日本国际环境和谐奖和麦克阿瑟基金会研究基金。
戴蒙德的代表作《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》探讨了人类社会不平等的起源和地理成因,获1998年美国普利策奖和英国科普图书奖。
居然在图找到中文版,希望有天可以看英文版
评分4.9 stars. The demonstration of Easter Island's society.
评分Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.
评分居然在图找到中文版,希望有天可以看英文版
评分哎玛雅,读原版太累了
作者讲维京人用了三章的篇幅,打头便是对1958年柯克•道格拉斯主演的电影《维京人》的某一场景进行一番追述,“50年后我仍然记得影片里维京海盗攻破古堡的大门,大肆屠杀里面毫无戒备、正在举杯痛饮的人们。柯克•道格拉斯请求他美丽的俘虏珍妮特•利假装反抗来增强他的...
评分书是很好的,就是…… 301页最后一段: 本段第一句(老美写作爱放中心思想的地方): “讨论完中国的进口品,现在让我们广义地来看中国的出口品。” 接下来说来自中国或东亚的病害、虫害对美国林木造成的损害,还有中国草鱼对美国淡水生态的影响。 然后就说: “另外,中...
评分记得中学的时候看到一篇散文。作者说参与考古挖掘,在一片黄沙中掘出两具紧紧拥抱在一起的尸骨。这两具尸骨一男一女。现在已经无从得知他们生前的故事,但那很可能是荡气回肠的悲剧。 他们也许还属幸运,毕竟时光定格了他们永不分离。“可怜无定河边骨,犹是春闺梦里人。”这14...
评分记得中学的时候看到一篇散文。作者说参与考古挖掘,在一片黄沙中掘出两具紧紧拥抱在一起的尸骨。这两具尸骨一男一女。现在已经无从得知他们生前的故事,但那很可能是荡气回肠的悲剧。 他们也许还属幸运,毕竟时光定格了他们永不分离。“可怜无定河边骨,犹是春闺梦里人。”这14...
评分Collapse pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025