Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

- Original Message - From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:09 PM Subject: Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3 You have a point about oversimplification: In Guns..., my primary grief was a lack

Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:26:11 -0600, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:09 PM Subject: Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3 You have

Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:26:11 -0600, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll admit I have not read this particular Collapse book yet, although I've read plenty in the last 30+ years. But, if the review is at all accurate concerning the claims in the book, then it is based on a selective

Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:16:12 -0600, Gary Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reviewer, Easterbrook, is so incredibly wrong in what he says about _Guns, Germs and Steel that I cannot trust anything he says about _Collapse. Years ago Easterbrook was a decent science columnist and reviewer but

Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

- Original Message - From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:26 AM Subject: Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3 I'll admit I have not read this particular Collapse book yet, although I've read plenty

Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:45:51 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:32 PM Tuesday 2/1/2005, Gary Denton wrote: - I think Brin was on to something in 'Earth' in suggesting the right to vote be dependent upon subscribing to some opposing viewpoint media. I don't recall the

'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30EASTERB.html?oref=log inoref=login http://tinyurl.com/47hvq EIGHT years ago Jared Diamond realized what is, for authors, increasingly a fantasy -- he published a serious, challenging and complex book that became a huge commercial success.

Re: 'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

You have a point about oversimplification: In Guns..., my primary grief was a lack of attention paid to how cultural and gov.'t factors contributed and developed the potential geography bestowed. (Anyone who has looked into, say, Chinese history will notice that a lot of the most original stuff