Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Penguin Group, 2006. Faded spine, writing from previous owner on front endpaper.

From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could such mighty civilizations fall? And could our skyscrapers one day stand derelict and overgrown like ancient temples?...