Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond.

By:

Diamond, Jared M

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2005.Edition: This Edition published in 2006Description: 575 pages : maps ; illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:

0670033375
9780140279511

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DDC classification:

304.2/8 22

LOC classification:

HN13 .D5 2005

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Kork Campus	Non-Fiction	DIA 304.28 HN13 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	FISSE03320

Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.

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.

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