Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
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Published:
New York : Viking, 2005.
Physical Desc:
xi, 575 pages, [24] pages of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 48
Lexile measure:
1460L
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Description
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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Book
Language:
English
ISBN:
0670033375 :
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 12.3, 48 Points
Level 12.3, 48 Points
Lexile measure:
1460
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.
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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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APA Citation (style guide)
Diamond, J. M. (2005). Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. New York, Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Diamond, Jared M. 2005. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York, Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Diamond, Jared M, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York, Viking, 2005.
MLA Citation (style guide)Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York, Viking, 2005.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue : a tale of two farms -- pt. 1: Modern Montana. Under Montana's big sky -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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? | |
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