Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan's Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by The Rockefeller University. His previous books include "Why Is Sex Fun?," "The Third Chimpanzee," "Collapse," "The World Until Yesterday, " and "Guns, Germs, and Steel," winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
"Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane
scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his
case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling."
--The New York Times
..".Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and
written with clarity and enthusiasm." --Businessweek
"Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most
significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our
generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition
and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the
digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian
sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature
might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and
formed arguments with such care." --Gregg Easterbrook, The New York
Times Book Review
"Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling." --The New York Times
..".Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and
written with clarity and enthusiasm." --Businessweek
"Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most
significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our
generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition
and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the
digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian
sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature
might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and
formed arguments with such care." --Gregg Easterbrook, The New York
Times Book Review
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