Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed

Summary: "In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?"

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ISBN: 0670033375
ISBN: 9780670033379
ISBN: 0739455354
ISBN: 9780739455357
ISBN: 0713992867
ISBN: 9780713992861
ISBN: 0713998628
ISBN: 9780713998627
ISBN: 9780143036555
ISBN: 0143036556
Physical Description: print
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xi, 575 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2005.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-560) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue : a tale of two farms -- Two farms -- Collapses, past and present -- Vanished Edens? -- A five-point framework -- Businesses and the environment -- The comparative method -- Plan of the book -- pt. 1. Modern Montana -- 1. Under Montana's big sky -- Stan Falkow's story -- Montana and me -- Why begin with Montana? -- Montana's economic history -- Mining -- Forests -- Soil -- Water -- Native and non-native species -- Differing visions -- Attitudes towards regulation -- Rick Laible's story -- Chip Pigman's story -- Tim Huls's story -- John Cook's story -- Montana, model of the world.

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