Collapse (Record no. 7287)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241958681
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 330DIA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Diamond, Jared M.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Collapse
Remainder of title how societies choose to fail or succeed
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 589 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society?s apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Social history--Case studies.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   330DIA 007674 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book