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050	0	0	_aHN13 _b.D5 2005
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100	1		_aDiamond, Jared M.
245	1	0	_aCollapse : _bhow societies choose to fail or succeed / _cJared Diamond.
250			_aThis Edition published in 2006
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2005.
300			_a575 pages : _bmaps ; illustrations ; _c21 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.
520			_aWhat 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.
650		0	_aSocial history _vCase studies.
650		0	_aSocial change _vCase studies.
650		0	_aEnvironmental policy _vCase studies.
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