Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
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- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
- Title remainder
- how societies choose to fail or succeed
- Statement of responsibility
- Jared Diamond
- Subject
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- trueSocial change -- Case studies
- Social change -- Case studies
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Civilization -- history
- Environment
- trueEnvironmental degradation
- Environmental policy -- Case studies
- trueEnvironmental policy -- Cases
- trueHistory Writing -- General
- trueNature Writing -- Environmental Issues
- Social Conditions -- history
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2006.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2005.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2005
- YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound, 2009.
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2005.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 304.2/8
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HN13
- LC item number
- .D5 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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