Collapse

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。

出版者:Viking Adult

作者:Jared Diamond

页数:592

出版时间:2004-12-29

价格:USD 29.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780670033379

图书标签:人文社科历史人类社会人类学社会社会学地理Jared

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?

读后感

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...  

贾雷德·戴蒙德 (Jared Diamond)教授是全球惟一两度获英国科普图书奖的作家，他也曾将普利策奖收入囊中。戴教授文笔优美，研究范围广泛，写科普图书能贯通文、史、理、农、医、经济等等，所以看他的新作《崩溃》分析环境对社会发展轨迹的影响并不会觉得枯燥。相反，读者会觉得...  

《枪炮、病菌与钢铁：人类社会的命运》和《崩溃——社会如何选择成败兴亡》都是贾雷德·戴蒙德的作品，也是人类学方面杰出的普及作品。不过，我都是非常不厚道地看的电子版。 前一本书的视角是非常独特的，从农业起源和地理气候的因素分析人类发展历史中偶然中的微妙必...  

花了两个星期，非常细致地读完了戴蒙德的这两本书，感触很深。以前都是在整理完读书笔记后，才写书评的，但是这次却觉得心中有很多话迫切地向说出来。 《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》主要是从环境角度阐述了人类历史发展过程中的一些看似细微却影响重大的自然因素，指出，这些自然因素...  

《枪炮、病菌与钢铁：人类社会的命运》和《崩溃——社会如何选择成败兴亡》都是贾雷德·戴蒙德的作品，也是人类学方面杰出的普及作品。不过，我都是非常不厚道地看的电子版。 前一本书的视角是非常独特的，从农业起源和地理气候的因素分析人类发展历史中偶然中的微妙必...  

用户评价

好像也没讲出什么来，和看了自私的基因后一样，没有变化

好像也没讲出什么来，和看了自私的基因后一样，没有变化

Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.

居然在图找到中文版，希望有天可以看英文版

Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.