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Author Diamond, Jared M.
Title Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond.
Publication Info London : Penguin Books, 2006.


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Descript 575p.
Note Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2005.
Contents Prologue: A tale of two farms -- Under Montana's big sky -- Twilight at Easter -- The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors -- The Maya collapses -- The Viking prelude and fugues -- Norse Greenland's flowering -- Norse Greenland's end -- Opposite paths to success -- Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- China, lurching giant -- "Mining" Australia -- Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? -- Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes -- The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? -- Afterword: Angkor's rise and fall.
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Author Diamond, Jared M.
Series Penguin history
Subject Social history -- Case studies.
Social change -- Case studies.
Environmental policy -- Case studies.
Descript 575p.
Note Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2005.
Contents Prologue: A tale of two farms -- Under Montana's big sky -- Twilight at Easter -- The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors -- The Maya collapses -- The Viking prelude and fugues -- Norse Greenland's flowering -- Norse Greenland's end -- Opposite paths to success -- Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- China, lurching giant -- "Mining" Australia -- Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? -- Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes -- The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? -- Afterword: Angkor's rise and fall.
ISBN 0140279512
9780140279511 (pbk)
Author Diamond, Jared M.
Series Penguin history
Subject Social history -- Case studies.
Social change -- Case studies.
Environmental policy -- Case studies.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 5th Floor  HN 13 D5  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 BJL 5th Floor  HN 13 D5  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Social history -- Case studies.
Social change -- Case studies.
Environmental policy -- Case studies.
Descript 575p.
Note Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2005.
Contents Prologue: A tale of two farms -- Under Montana's big sky -- Twilight at Easter -- The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors -- The Maya collapses -- The Viking prelude and fugues -- Norse Greenland's flowering -- Norse Greenland's end -- Opposite paths to success -- Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- China, lurching giant -- "Mining" Australia -- Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? -- Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes -- The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? -- Afterword: Angkor's rise and fall.
ISBN 0140279512
9780140279511 (pbk)
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