Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
(Book - Regular Print)

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Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
Physical Desc
xii, 589 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Status
Prescott College - CIRCCOLL - Circulating Collection
HN13.D5 2011
1 available
Yavapai College Prescott - LIMBO - Items being donated to other libraries
HN13.D5 2011
1 available

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Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 12.3, 48 Points
Lexile measure
1460

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General Note
"With a new afterword"--Cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 542-574) and index.
Description
"A magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm. It's also the deal of the year--the equivalent of a year's college course by an engaging, brilliant professor, all for the price of a book."
Description
Who Hasn't Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond--whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history--explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What emerges is a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe--one whose warning signs surround us today and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances and a vast historical perspective into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future.
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"Diamond's most influential gift may be his ability to write about geopolitical and environmental systems in ways that don't just educate and provoke, but entertain."
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"Extremely persuasive ... replete with fascinating stories, a treasure trove of historical anecdotes [and] haunting statistics."
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"Essential reading ... Collapse [shows] that resilient societies are nimble ones, capable of long-term planning and of abandoning deeply entrenched but ultimately destructive core values and beliefs."
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"There are hopeful messages in Collapse. With Diamond's help, maybe we'll learn to see our problems a little more clearly before we chop down that last palm tree."
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"Extraordinarily panoramic ... Diamond's complex historical web of how human communities either master their environment or become victims of them ... takes a lifetime of research and, in normal English, leads the reader painstakingly where the media and intellectual journals have often refused to go."--Jacket.
Target Audience
1460 L,Lexile
Target Audience
1460L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,12.3,48,101906.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Diamond, J. M. (2011). Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed . Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Diamond, Jared M. 2011. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Penguin Books, 2011.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Penguin Books, 2011.

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