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01918cim a2200397Ia 4500 001 B19FDB102B0811DEBA4F1C08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20211120010853 007 sd fungnn---eu 008 050119s2005 nyunnn z eng d 020 $a 9780143057185 020 $a 0143057189 028 01 $a 305718-9 $b Penguin Audio 040 $a OWL $c OWL $d SILO $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d IHI $d OCLCQ $d BAKER $d IWR $d SILO 050 14 $a HN13 $b .D53 2005c 082 04 $a 304.2/8 $2 22 100 1 $a Diamond, Jared M. 245 1 $a Collapse $h [sound recording (CD)] : $b how societies choose to fail or succeed / $c Jared Diamond. 250 $a Abridged. 260 $a New York : $b Penguin Audio, $c p2005. 300 $a 8 sound discs (ca. 9.5 hr.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 0 $a Read by Christopher Murney. 520 $a 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 flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals or environment gives us. 530 $a Issued also on cassette. 650 0 $a Social history $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Social change $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Environmental policy $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Audiobooks. 700 1 $a Murney, Christopher. $4 nrt 941 $a 2 945 $a cdab 952 $l JLPF081 $d 20150213085032.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B19FDB102B0811DEBA4F1C08A8D7520A 994 $a C0 $b IWRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search