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Title: Collapse: How Socities Choose to Fail or Succeed
Review: A great and timely theme. Unfortunately, supporting this theme with spurious, old, and disregarded data doesn't make the case. The result is that anyone half-way sophisticated enough to be familiar with the issues and up-to-date information will be at least unimpressed. The previous "Guns, Germs, and Steel" was a good piece of work, at least from the purely materialist perspective, but this one will not make converts.
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