{"product_id":"📚-collapse-jared-diamond-human-nature-james-trefil-free-shipping","title":"📚 Collapse Jared Diamond \u0026 Human Nature James Trefil – FREE Shipping","description":"\u003cspan id=\"docs-internal-guid-75719b21-7fff-4b63-1ed5-291b5377c8e7\"\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   A timely and intellectually powerful 2-book bundle pairing one of the most important and widely read works of popular science and historical analysis of the 21st century with a sweeping scientific blueprint for humanity's sustainable management of the Earth — together forming an essential and urgently relevant reading pairing on the relationship between human societies and the natural world. Both authors are scientists of the first rank and gifted popular writers whose books have reached millions of readers worldwide, and together these titles offer a compelling and complementary examination of how human civilizations interact with their environments — and what the consequences of getting that relationship wrong have been and will be. Essential reading for students of environmental science, history of civilization, ecology, sustainability, anthropology, and anyone concerned with the long-term future of human societies on Earth.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Books Included in This Lot (as shown in photo):\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cul style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;\"\u003e\n  \u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;\"\u003e\n   \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel)\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     — The landmark and enormously influential follow-up to Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     Guns, Germs, and Steel\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     , examining why some societies throughout history have collapsed catastrophically while others have survived and thrived — drawing on case studies ranging from the Easter Islanders and the Anasazi to the Norse Greenland colony, Rwanda, and modern Montana to identify the key environmental, social, and political factors that determine whether civilizations endure or perish. One of the most important and widely discussed popular science books of the 21st century and essential reading for anyone concerned with environmental sustainability and the long-term fate of human civilization.\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;\"\u003e\n   \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     Human Nature: A Blueprint for Managing the Earth — By People, For People by James Trefil\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     — A bold and scientifically grounded blueprint for humanity's sustainable stewardship of the Earth, drawing on physics, biology, ecology, and the social sciences to argue that human nature itself — our intelligence, adaptability, and capacity for cooperation — provides the foundation for a genuinely sustainable relationship between civilization and the natural world. Written by James Trefil, author of\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     Are We Unique?\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n     and one of America's most prolific and accessible science writers, this hardcover presents an optimistic and rigorously argued counterpoint to apocalyptic environmental thinking.\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003c\/ul\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n","brand":"Book Lots","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48581347672296,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/2062\/1032\/files\/10_736895bf-0d6c-480f-90bf-343eb4521ee8.jpg?v=1779473853","url":"https:\/\/www.book-lots.com\/products\/%f0%9f%93%9a-collapse-jared-diamond-human-nature-james-trefil-free-shipping","provider":"Book Lots","version":"1.0","type":"link"}