贾雷德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond),加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授,美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士,是当代少数几位探究人类社会与文明的思想家之一。
戴蒙德的研究使他获奖无数,包括美国国家科学奖、美国 地理学会伯尔奖、泰勒环境贡献奖、日本国际环境和谐奖和麦克阿瑟基金会研究基金。
戴蒙德的代表作《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》探讨了人类社会不平等的起源和地理成因,获1998年美国普利策奖和英国科普图书奖。
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? As in Guns, Germs, and Steel , Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society’s apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
这本书看完以后立刻借给老妈了,而她看书又很慢。因此,写书评的计划就一拖再拖。现在决定写一篇不翻书确认的书评,了结心思。 从书的主旨来讲的,作者可算开宗明义,一上来就把他总结的、导致社会崩溃的生态破坏、气候变化、强敌在侧、友邻衰弱、对策失误等五大因素列出。全...
评分1. 本书所研究的崩溃,是指在相当大的地域范围内,历经一段时期,人口数量、政治经济社会复杂性的遽减与衰败。知名的崩溃例子有玛雅、复活节岛、吴哥窟等。作者举的知名例子,多数我没听说过或只听过名字,汗一下。 2. 过去社会自我破坏环境的过程可分为八个种类:森林退化和栖...
评分为什么一定要给这本书贴上一个环保主义的标签,把它归类,似乎自己已经掌握了它,魔鬼已经制服。我只知道我读了它之后,情绪受到了影响,内心很不平静。我不是害怕于那些触目惊心的破坏环境的事实,也不是恐惧于人类有可能像寄生虫一样将与宿主同归于尽,我只是在想地球如果有...
评分《枪炮、病菌与钢铁:人类社会的命运》和《崩溃——社会如何选择成败兴亡》都是贾雷德·戴蒙德的作品,也是人类学方面杰出的普及作品。不过,我都是非常不厚道地看的电子版。 前一本书的视角是非常独特的,从农业起源和地理气候的因素分析人类发展历史中偶然中的微妙必...
评分《枪炮、病菌与钢铁:人类社会的命运》和《崩溃——社会如何选择成败兴亡》都是贾雷德·戴蒙德的作品,也是人类学方面杰出的普及作品。不过,我都是非常不厚道地看的电子版。 前一本书的视角是非常独特的,从农业起源和地理气候的因素分析人类发展历史中偶然中的微妙必...
Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.
评分哎玛雅,读原版太累了
评分此书会让人觉得罗嗦,但其实是作者以像做学术那样的严谨态度写的。总结了几个人类文明灭亡或者衰落的原因,看了让人扼腕惋惜。虽然那些文明大多都是小范围的,如今经济文明都全球化。但是,人,仍旧鼠目寸光而又贪婪自私。实在应该每个人都来读这书。虽然读了,也仍旧因为自私而选择鼠目寸光。。。
评分Some chapters are too dry, but some are good and acutely point out the problem of mordern society. Globalization is not always so good in the perspective of environment. Maybe we should really focus back on our local economy instead of importing and exporting so much.
评分好像也没讲出什么来,和看了自私的基因后一样,没有变化
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