Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143117001
- ISBN: 0143117009
- Physical Description: xii, 589 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
- Copyright: c2011
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published: United States : Viking Penguin, 2005. Published in Penguin Books, 2006. Published with a new afterword in 2011.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue : a tale of two farms -- Part 1: Modern Montana : Under Montana's big sky -- Part 2: Past societies : 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 -- Part 3: Modern societies : Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- China, lurching giant -- "Mining" Australia -- Part 4: Practical lessons : 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.
- Target Audience Note:
- 1460L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 12.3 48 101906.
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- Social history > Case studies.
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- 5 of 5 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 304.2809 DIA (Text) | 36015000669404 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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