


Taken together, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse" represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. Now he has written a sequel, "Collapse," which asks whether present nations can last. "Guns, Germs, and Steel" won a Pulitzer Prize, then sold a million copies, astonishing for a 480-page volume of archeological speculation on how the world reached its present ordering of nations.

$29.95.ĮIGHT years ago Jared Diamond realized what is, for authors, increasingly a fantasy - he published a serious, challenging and complex book that became a huge commercial success. COLLAPSE How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
