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Seller: TASALCO Books & Maps, Coburg North, VIC, AustraliaTASALCO Books & Maps
AbeBooks seller since March 12, 2026
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 9.26
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Paperback, 575 pages. Condition: Near Fine - wear to front cover cnrs, otherwise book as new, no damage.markings/tears.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1786939902688
- Title
- Collapse
- Author
- Diamond, Jared
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Near fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0713998628
- ISBN 13
- 9780713998627
- Item weight
- 1,320 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.2 centimeters width by 23.2 centimeters height by 3.8 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 2 of 3: Civilizations Rise and Fall
- Seller catalogs
- ???-1000, 1000-1500, 1500-1700, 1700-1914, 1914-present, Asia, Australia, Europe, States/Kingdoms/Empires/etc, World
In Collapse, Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandonded statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All saw their cultures collapse because of environmental crises. And it looks as if those crises were self-induced.
As in his celebrated global best-seller Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond brings together new evidence from a startling range of sources to tell a story with epic scope. And he lends it urgency for the modern world by probing the roots of decisions which allowed some societies to avoid ecological catastrophe, while others succumbed. How, he asks, can we learn to be survivors?
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About the Author
Jared Diamond was born in Boston to a physician father and a teacher/musician/linguist mother. After training in laboratory biological science he became Professor of Physiology at UCLA Medical School in 1966. However, already while in his twenties, he also developed a second parallel career in the ecology and evolution of New Guinea birds. That led him to explore some of the most remote parts of that great tropical island, and to rediscover New Guinea's long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird. In his fifties he gradually developed a third career in environmental history, becoming Professor of Geography and of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA.
As well as being renowned in academic circles, Jared Diamond is famous for his prize-winning books The Third Chimpanzee and Why is Sex Fun?, and for revolutionizing the study of global human history with Guns, Germs and Steel. His awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (a 'genius award'), and the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. The broad range of disciplines that he weaves into his writing - linguistics, genetics, animal behaviour, molecular biology and others - caused a reviewer to write, ' "Jared Diamond" is suspected of actually being the pseudonym for a committee of experts.' In his spare time he watches birds and learns languages (he is currently learning his twelfth). He is the father of seventeen-year-old twin sons who have informed much of his outlook on life.
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TASALCO Books & Maps
Coburg North, VIC, Australia
AbeBooks seller since March 12, 2026
Shipping rates from Australia to U.S.A.
| Item | 7 to 25 business days | 60 to 60 business days |
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| First item | £ 31.18 | £ 741.61 |
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We've spent decades collecting & selling books, atlases, antique maps & much more. Time to spread my online presence to help a more people find that rare or unusual history book, or stunning antique maps & atlases. We will be replacing our inventory regularly & as a rule we only sell items in Very Good Plus condition or better. The majority of the history books we sell are largely based within the years 1000-1950, and are largely European or Middle East related. We also sell genuine antique maps & atlases generally from the 1700 & 1800's, plus related geographical pieces. Our books are predominantly political, academic, biographic, history & military books - anything you need, just ask & hopefully we can find it so you. The same applies to our antique maps, we have a large unlisted inventory in storage, so want to see somewhere between 1700-1900 likely to be able to help. Any other questions at all - please message. Tas Alco Books & Maps, Coburg, Australia.…
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History, Military, Royalty, Religion, Politics, Biographies + Antique Atlas & Maps.Seller's business information
TASALCO Books & Maps
VIC, Australia
Terms of sale
We run this store second to our "normal" jobs. The majority are Used books however we are also regularly listing New books. Photos are listed for every book, highlighting any issues so any refunds need a good reason.
Anyone within Australia purchasing an item will be charged the 10% Goods & Services Tax (GST). I won't keep this, AbeBook will extract the tax and forward it on to the Australian Tax Office.
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Rodger White
Email: tasalco@yahoo.com.au
Phone: +61420533245
Address: 5/807 Sydney Road, Coburg North, Victoria, 3058, Australia
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