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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Jared Diamond at USF tomorrow night
Needless to say I'll be there, front and center. Scans of my autographed books to come...
Jared Diamond
“Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”
March 2 at 7pm in the Special Events Center
Co-sponsored by the USF Humanities Institute
Author and biologist Jared Diamond is renowned globally for his popular scientific works that combine anthropology, biology, linguistics, genetics, and history. He is the author of the 1997 book Guns, Germs, and Steel, which asserts that the main international issues of our time are legacies of processes that began during the early-modern period, in which civilizations that had experienced an extensive amount of "human development" began to intrude upon simpler civilizations around the world. In his most recent book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Diamond examines what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin and considers what contemporary society can learn from their fates. Diamond is currently a professor of geography and of environmental health sciences at the University of California – Los Angeles.
Previously on Nomadic Thoughts:
More on the Guns, Germs, and Steel Special on PBS
GG&S Episode One Review
GG&S Episode Two Review
My psuedo-interview with Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel: Final Review and Analysis
GG&S Debate Heats Up
A belated Reply to my Guns, Germs and Steel review
Posted by Will at March 1, 2006 10:48 AM in Graduate School