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Author : Jared Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-03-21
Collapse written by Jared Diamond and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with History categories.
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times
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Author : Kirstin Cronn-Mills
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2009
Collapse written by Kirstin Cronn-Mills and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Structural engineering categories.
Explains, using examples of structural collapses from around the world, the science behind structural engineering and the reasons behind engineering failures.
The Collapse
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Author : Mary Elise Sarotte
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2014-10-07
The Collapse written by Mary Elise Sarotte and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-07 with History categories.
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall -- infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe -- seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime -- nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It was an accident. In The Collapse, prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall. With a novelist's eye for character and detail, she brings to vivid life a story that sweeps across Budapest, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig and up to the armed checkpoints in Berlin. We meet the revolutionaries Roland Jahn, Aram Radomski, and Siggi Schefke, risking it all to smuggle the truth across the Iron Curtain; the hapless Politburo member GüSchabowski, mistakenly suggesting that the Wall is open to a press conference full of foreign journalists, including NBC's Tom Brokaw; and Stasi officer Harald Jär, holding the fort at the crucial border crossing that night. Soon, Brokaw starts broadcasting live from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, where the crowds are exulting in the euphoria of newfound freedom -- and the dictators are plotting to restore control. Drawing on new archival sources and dozens of interviews, The Collapse offers the definitive account of the night that brought down the Berlin Wall.
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Author : Phillip Wearne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Collapse written by Phillip Wearne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture categories.
What happens when the very ground beneath your feet gives way? In Collapse, Philip Wearne tells the stories behind the worst structural engineering disasters of the last fifty years, and the forensic engineers who investigated their causes. Using expert testimonies from scientific investigators, Wearne studies eleven high-profile cases of catastrophic structural collapse, from The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City and the Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut, to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Sometimes, if these disasters have a single cause, it is a small flaw that spawns a chain reaction -- for instance, the miniscule flaw in the metal of one eyebar of the Point Pleasant Bridge on the Ohio River. Usually, though, and more alarmingly, the causes are human. Mistakes, misunderstandings, incompetence, greed, and corruption: every facet of human failing is represented in these structural collapses. This makes the investigation of these failures -- by agencies like the Failure Analysis Associates, who can have close to two thousand investigations ongoing at any one time -- dirty and dangerous business. Wearne's case study takes us deep inside the ever-growing industry of forensic engineering, revealing a group of professionals dedicated to determining the cause of a collapse at any cost, while learning and applying valuable lessons from each failure. Provocative and well-written, Collapse is essential for deepening our understanding of -- and readiness for -- catastrophe.
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Author : M J Dees
language : en
Publisher: M J Dees
Release Date : 2021-10-24
Collapse written by M J Dees and has been published by M J Dees this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-24 with Fiction categories.
When the collapse came, Jim and Annabel found themselves in a fight for survival against those who would take rather than create. With England in a freefall towards anarchy, they were on their own. Even their daughter, Olivia, had left to establish a commune with Jim's political enemy but they too soon found themselves under attack. Surrounded by hundreds of miles of hostile territory, can they find a way to defend their land, their lives and their community? Collapse is book two in the dystopian Collapse series
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Author : Jared M. Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2005
Collapse written by Jared M. Diamond and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA.
Breakdown
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Author : Robert Briffault
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Breakdown written by Robert Briffault and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Capitalism categories.
Understanding Collapse
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Author : Guy D. Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Understanding Collapse written by Guy D. Middleton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with History categories.
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
The Coming Collapse Of China
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Author : Gordon G. Chang
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-05-25
The Coming Collapse Of China written by Gordon G. Chang and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with Business & Economics categories.
Fully revised and updated edition covering China's new membership of the WTO and with a new introduction. 'Damning data and persuasive arguments that should set some Communist knees a-knocking.' Kirkus Reviews'A compelling account of the rot in China's institutions and the forces at work to end the Communist Party's monopoly on power.' James A. Dorn, Cato Institute, Washington D. C., Co-Editor of China's future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? 'Quite simply the best book I know about China's future. Gordon Chang writes marvellously and knows China well. I hope everyone concerned with that country will pay careful consideration to what he sees ahead.' Arthur Waldron, Director of Asian Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Lauder Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania.'A tour de force not to be missed.' Willy Wo-Lap, Senior China Analyst at CNN's Hong Kong office and author of The Era of Jiang Zemin.'When he warns that China's two centuries of troubles are still not over, we had better take notice.' Andrew J. Nathan, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University; Co-Editor, The Tiananmen Papers.
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Author : Samuel Charles Chafe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Collapse written by Samuel Charles Chafe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Eucalyptus categories.