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Jared Diamond's Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty
follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel.
While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and
environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished....
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