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Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Record details
- ISBN: 0143036556 (pbk)
- ISBN: 0670033375
- ISBN: 9780143036555 (pbk)
- ISBN: 9780670033379
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Physical Description:
xi, 575 p., [24] p. of plates : ill ; 25 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2005.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : a tale of two farms -- Pt. 1. Modern Montana -- Ch. 1. Under Montana's big sky -- Pt. 2. Past societies -- Ch. 2. Twilight at Easter -- Ch. 3. The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- Ch. 4. The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors -- Ch. 5. The Maya collapses -- Ch. 6. The Viking prelude and fugues -- Ch. 7. Norse Greenland's flowering -- Ch. 8. Norse Greenland's end -- Ch. 9. Opposite paths to success -- Pt. 3. Modern societies -- Ch. 10. Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- Ch. 11. One Island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- Ch. 12. China, lurching giant -- Ch. 13. "Mining" Australia -- Pt. 4. Practical lessons -- Ch. 14. Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? -- Ch. 15. Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes -- Ch. 16. The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? |
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| Subject: | Social history -- Case studies Environmental policy -- Case studies Social change -- Case studies |
| Topic Heading: | GHGEC |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Camosun College Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Interurban Library | HN 13 D5 2005 (Text) | 26040002609184 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| Lansdowne Library | HN 13 D5 2005 (Text) | 26040002609176 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
