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COLLAPSE -- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed --
Jared Diamond
ISBN 4-7492-1464-2 (Japanese translation, book1)
ISBN 4-7492-1465-0(Japanese translation, book2)

Jared Diamond, author of this book has various titles, evolutionary biologist, biogiographer, nonfiction author and so on. In this book, he describes the reasons why various societies failed or succeeded to survive.

I didn't know that now history of Easter Island is well understood, and also secret of its famous giant statues, moai, was revealed. When I was a child, I read that moais were built by ancient Atlantis people. Yes, it was a dreaming story, but actually it was a problem of economy between humans and nature after all.

BTW, Japanese title and subtitle of this book is "文明崩壊 --滅亡と存続の命運を分けるもの--."