| Record ID | marc_ithaca_college/ic_marc.mrc:204736045:1612 |
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050 00 $aHN13$b.D5 2005
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100 1 $aDiamond, Jared M.
245 10 $aCollapse :$bhow societies choose to fail or succeed /$cJared Diamond.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2005.
300 $axi, 575 p., [24] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue : 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?
650 0 $aSocial history$vCase studies.
650 0 $aSocial change$vCase studies.
650 0 $aEnvironmental policy$vCase studies.
994 $aC0$bXIM