Guns, Germs, and Steel
The book concludes by asking why some societies make disastrous decisions, how big businesses affect the environment, what our principal environmental problems are today, and what individuals can do about those problems. Like "Guns, Germs, and Steel", "Collapse" was translated into dozens of languages, became an international best-seller, and was the basis of a television documentary produced by the National Geographic Society. Some anthropologists and scholars criticized Diamond's methods and conclusions. "Collapse" was also nominated for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.