Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Record details
- ISBN: 0739455354
- ISBN: 0670033375
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Physical Description:
575 p, [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Summary, etc.: | What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals or environment gives us. |
Target Audience Note: | Adult |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | ANF 304.28 DIA (Text) | 33260000504168 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |