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... Library at Night by Manguel Alberto (books about books--I can't resist them)
American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever
Collapse by Jared Diamond (Loved Guns, Germs and Steele so decided to spring for this one.
Now all I have to do is find time to read them!
I noticed some one on this ... ... Library at Night by Manguel Alberto (books about books--I can't resist them)
American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever
Collapse by Jared Diamond (Loved Guns, Germs and Steele so decided to spring for this one.
Now all I have to do is find time to read them!
(I don't know why Truman ... Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon ... great Marxists in a historical sense. But there are some non marxist authors that contribute to a materialist out look.
Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel are materialist in outlook I think. ... and highly enjoyable nonfiction that reads as easily as great fiction.
List 1:
Jared Diamond's 2 main works, Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel
1491
Beyond Civilization: World's Four Streams of Civilization--this work has been greatly overlooked by the nonfiction world, ... ... Ende wishlisted in their own language. It does help if the original version is in German - the German translation of Collapse has been in someones inventory (not mine!) forever, while the English version is pretty popular. ... History of the United States: 1492-PRESENT. Guns, Germs, and Steel is another excellent read, along with its sequel Collapse. The two books are just as much sociology as history, but are still valuable for a proper understanding of how people and countries interact and affect each other. Collapse, as well as others by Jared Diamond look fantastic.
How am I supposed to go on a book buying/mooching sabbatical when you folks keep talking about good books??????
... and Tipping point more societal, but they both leave you thinking: Yes! I'm going to do something with this book!
Collapse is still in my tbr pile, as some others here have noticed as well ;-) Ive got in my tbr pile:
The Sky's the Limit
The Tipping Point
The Places That Scare You
Collapse
The Wisdom of No Escape
There are 200+ books of mine tagged tbr. I felt pretty bad until I searched on the tbr tag and found I don't even make the list of top users of the tag--the ... ... counts as nonfiction, A Walk in the Woods is hilarious, but I imagine Bryson embroiders a bit!
And for as overhyped as Jared Diamond is, Guns, Germs, and Steel was pretty interesting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Holy ... 67. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
A sobering and absorbing read. I would have liked more historical example of his point, but I suppose he had to really bring home the urgency of the situation by relating it to modern contexts. I ended it feeling ... ... Alice for Christmas, to replace a long lost copy), adore Good Omens, re-read all 3 Hughart books regularly, and read the Jared Diamond book this spring. Have you read the other Hambly vampire book, Those Who Hunt the Night? Or Robin McKinley's Sunshine? I just joined yesterday and put my ... ... fatal revenge.
As far as my TBR pile -- I need to finish Guns, Germs, and Steel and Jared Diamond's other work, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed as well as Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews by James Carroll. I confess I'm having trouble with Guns, G ... I was extremely impressed by both Guns, Germs And Steel andCollapse.
The latter was written in 1995, ages ago, when one considers how quickly change takes place in our modern world. The problems that we face today are even more ominous than the author suggested. Overpopulation, global ... ... (1st ed. hardcover, $10)
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill
The Strand, NYC (1st. ed hardcover, $8)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Strand, NYC (1st. ed hardcover, $10) I haven't read Collapse but I thought that Guns, Germs, and Steel mainly re-worked the same info. from Alfred Crosby's Columbian Exchange.
If you liked Collapse, then you might also enjoy Sick Societies by Robert B. Edgerton. I'm re-reading the tragically timely Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed by Jared Diamond. Definitely Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. That is one scary read. Scary, but interesting. Haven't read all of it yet..have to pluck up the courage!
"Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent causes of disastrous behavior."
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed - Jared Diamond
"Will modern technology solve our problems, or is it creating new problems faster than it solves old ones? I noticed a bit of a dragging/repetitiveness in Collapse that I didn't get from Guns, Germs, and Steel, however I think that was partly due to him really trying to impart the seriousness of environmental destruction. Part three could stand on it's own, but without the earlier examples it might ... ...
Books I've read so far:
1. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster
2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
3. The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics by C.S. Lewis
4. Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, ... ... one a bit of a cliffhanger...bah!
I really, really want another "Nursery Crime", truth be told.
Also, I finished Collapse! by Jared Diamond, but I can't really count it because I quit about twenty pages from the end. Have I listed this one before? It's hard to tell, it *literally* ... ... languages though - I want Tintenherz not Inkheart (see, even the touchstones here are biased towards English!) and I want Collapse not Kollaps! I bought Collapse not too long ago, glad to hear that its worth the read. I read Guns, Germs and Steel back in college and I enjoyed it. I live in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana which is one of the locations Jared Diamond features in Collapse. He has a summer home in the area (broadly speaking) and gave a talk here soon after Collapse was released--if you ever get a chance to hear him speak, I'd highly recommend it.
As to ... >45
I've read Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. Both most excellent. ... chimpanzee. The difference is each book develops a common idea - Dr Diamond's hobby horse. Details are really what makes collapse worth the reading - each chapter seems to stand alone to pick and choose.
I skipped the first chapters - about Montana - maybe its a better read for Americans, ... Non-Fiction
1. Collapse by Jared Diamond
2. Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg
3. Admit One: A Journey Into Film by Emmett James
4. Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
5. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson Guns, Germs and Steel stands alone, but I'd read it before Collapse. Both are pretty good reads! I've read both GG&S and Collapse. Cannibals and Kings is by a different author (Marvin Harris) and some of the information may be dated since it was published in 1977. I don't think there's any reason to read one before the other. ... BritCrime novels, historical novels, and humour. I have several books going at once right now - The Fight for English, Collapse, The Shipping News and A Personal History by Katharine Graham. My goal is to finish two of these this week! While it has been a while since I read Collapse, I don't remember dictatorships being presented as a solution per se; maybe this is just how I came to it, but I read it as stating the unfortunate fact that free societies are not always so good at environmentalism. Which is, obviously, true--as ... ... look at how the United States' millions of foreign aid money is really being spent, and what good it is really doing.
Collapse* (the environment)
1491* (updated Native American history)
My Life in France
Omnivore's Dilemma* (what we eat)
White Man's Burden* (foreign aid to ... ... from what we all learned in school!). But nothing beats a great novel on a cold, rainy night...
Nonfiction:
Collapse
1491
My Life in France
Omnivore's Dilemma
White Man's Burden
The Third Chimpanzee
Bird of Life, Bird of Death
Fiction:
Peace Like a River
... ... (read February 2008)
4. Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right & Right Is Wrong - Alan Colmes (read March 2008
5. Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed - Jared Diamond
(reread June 2008)
6. The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler
7. Thieves Of Baghdad - Matthew ... ... history of science course that I took last year, but it was very readable and interesting.
Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, by Jared Diamond
The Long Summer: how climate changed civilization, and The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, by Brian M. Fagan
Catastrophe: ... Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Celtika
A Game of Thrones
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
The Mother Tongue
Made in America
The Historian
Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
The Map That Changed the World: William ... Collapse by Jared Diamond is the most important book I have read in the last 50 years. The author, who also wrote the Pulitzer-Prize Winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, presents a chilling case that we are following the example of earlier small societies (e.g., Easter Island, Norse Greenland, ... ... Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond also wrote a couple of other great books, Why Sex is Fun and The Third Chimpanzee. (Collapse is good too, but I wouldn't suggest that one without caveat, as it's a little drier than his others.
Most recently I've read and enjoyed Walter Isaacson's ... ... Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
HN Social history and conditions; Social problems; Social reform Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
HQ The family; Marriage; Woman; Sexuality The Cannibal
HS Societies: secret, benevolent, etc. The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, ... ... thesis of Guns, Germs, and Steel is a little more straightforward, which made it easier to get through. In the case of Collapse, he had a lot more variables to contend with, and unlike with the former volume, he had to examine the variables in parallel in most of the cases.
I think it ... ... lton
303 Social processes Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
304 Factors affecting social behavior Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
359 Sea (Naval) forces & warfare USS Intrepid: CVS-11 1971
362 Social welfare problems & services Ryan White: My Own S ... ... though. The rest have drifted to the bottom of the pile and may not have much hope of resurrection. For example, I started Collapse! in August, and haven't looked at it since school started.
Am I still reading it if I haven't taken the bookmark out...? ... about the whole proceedings. Not a bad read, but nothing spectacular from my point of view.
I just finished reading Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, (I highly recommend it) and he talks in that book about the problems that increased population ... Just starting Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. I think Collapse book is worth reading - I thought his examples were pretty interesting.
But ultimately, I thought the message was a bit more mixed and weaker than in Guns, Germs, and Steel, where he basically argues environmental determinism (people develop the resources they have, e.g. ... ... Wit's End by Erma Bombeck
One Last Breath by Stephen Booth
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond ... .
Also reading Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney - Lit Lite but I need one of those right now!
Dipping in and out of Collapse by Jared Diamond as well.
I loved On Chesil Beach. I like the spareness of his prose - I think it's refreshing to read an author who takes a serious ... Yesterday I borrowed Collapse by Jared Diamond from the library - I've been really wanting to read this book and thought I'd never find it secondhand (it's highly desired on BookMooch).
Well, the fates were smiling, I found it this morning at a yard sale for $1! Yea!! Now I have my own ... There is an intriguing chapter in Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed which discusses the establishment and eventual demise of the Norse colonies in Greenland. ... having read the whole book. It is a NonFiction book, and those are usually harder to get through. After I chose the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed with 575 pages, I became much more comfortable with members Not finishing the book.
I will sometimes direct the ... Here are the panel topics expected to be discussed in July. See anything particularly interesting?
What Single Novel is Most Emblematic of Readercon? A Thursday night panel, 90 minutes. "Readercon, to my mind, is all about books like this one." What's the one book? Obviously it's ... I read and LOVED Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel but I have been trying unsuccessfully to get through Collapse since it first came out. It seems more repetitive and less interesting than GG&S. I stopped reading at Chapter 6 over a year ago. Does anyone else have this problem? Is ... ... as climate), tomorrow's world will be a reduced one with many more Darfurs. What a sad example and legacy for our kids... Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or to Succeed by Jared Diamond. The rise and fall of the great powers : economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 ... ... choice of Sisters in the Wilderness and would add
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond - I have his next book, Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed on my TBR pile
More recent non- fiction that I liked
Race Against Time CBC Massey Lecture Series by Stephen Lewis
... ... to Judaism
The Historical Jesus (The Great Courses, 1 and 2)
Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Celtika
The historian : a novel
Alpha beta : how 26 letters shaped the Western world
Fables: Legends in Exile
... ... before getting totally sick and not being able to touch that type of book for a year or so.
My choice for this week is Collapse by Jared Diamond. This explores and seeks why some society's have failed and others have succeeded. It will be interesting to see if it differs from his ideas ... I am currently reading Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence and Collapse by Jared Diamond. Just started Collapse by Jared Diamond ... regarding Ishiguro, I can heartily recommend the unconsoled ... don't be put off by its length, the book was incredible! ... "other side" to cannibalism. I had my questions about this answered in Jared Diamond's books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. There are anthropological reasons for some civilizations resorting to cannibalism that are not derived from religion. They might use religion as a framework for ... ... and I completed both Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky - just good enough for me to keep reading - and Jared Diamond's Collapse - an excellent book in every way though harder going than Guns, Germs and Steel.
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