Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond joins Larry Mantle to talk about his new book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking), in which he shows how societies historically have ...

Prologue : a tale of two farms -- pt. 1: Modern Montana. Under Montana's big sky -- pt. 2: Past societies. Twilight at Easter -- The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- The ancient ...

Nations with leaders who are keenly affected by their own decisions may weather crises better than those whose leaders are further removed, according to author Jared Diamond. Diamond discusses his new ...

In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or ...

I don't normally post twice in one day, but I didn't want to lose the thought.The past three Keep the Joint Running columns have been based on Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or ...