Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond.

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...

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Main Author:	Diamond, Jared M.
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, 2005.
Subjects:	Social history > Case studies. Social change > Case studies. Environmental policy > Case studies. Civilization > history. Social Conditions > history. Environment.
Genre:	Case studies.
Physical Description:	xi, 575 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format:	Book