Collapse : how societies choose to fail or survive /: how societies choose to fail or survive. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jared Diamond.
• Authors: Diamond, Jared M
• Contents: Prologue: A tale of two farms -- Under Montana's big sky -- 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 -- Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- China, lurching giant -- "Mining" Australia -- 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? -- Afterword: Angkor's rise and fall.
• Publisher Details: New York : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 589 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 304.28; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; HISTORY / Social History; Environmental policy; Social change; Social history; Social & Cultural History; Anthropology; Social history -- Case studies; Social change -- Case studies; Environmental policy -- Case studies; Electronic books; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781101501962; 1101501960; 9781101502006; 1101502002; 9780141976969; 0141976969
• Related ISBNs: 9780143117001; 0143117009; 0241958687
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.