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02177cim a2200361Ia 4500 001 26D286CA2B0A11DE8AF32708A8D7520A 005 20150520012456 007 ss lunjlc---uu 008 041222s2005 caunnn z eng d 020 $a 9781415917268 020 $a 1415917264 028 02 $a 6596 $b Books on Tape 035 $a (OCoLC)57312049 040 $a TEFBT $c TEFBT $d SILO $d OCLCQ $d DPL $d SILO 100 1 $a Diamond, Jared M. 245 1 $a Collapse $h [sound recording] : $b [how societies choose to fail or succeed] / $c by Jared Diamond. 250 $a [Library ed.] 260 $a Santa Ana, CA : $b Books on Tape, $c cp2005. 300 $a 19 sound cassettes (ca. 27 1/2 hr.) : $b analog, Dolby processed. 500 $a Subtitle from container. 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Read by Michael Prichard. 520 $a "What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture on Easter Island to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals our environment gives us, and when we reproduce too fast or cut down too many trees. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unstable trade partners, and pressure from enemies were all factors in the demise of the doomed societies, but other societies found solutions to those same problems and persisted. Huge in scope, clear and passionate in style, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid destroying itself?"--Container. 650 0 $a Social history $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Social change $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Environmental policy. $v Case studies. 655 0 $a Audiobooks. 700 1 $a Prichard, Michael $q (Michael J.) 939 $a 5462154 941 $a 1 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=26D286CA2B0A11DE8AF32708A8D7520A 994 $a C0 $b IFK 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search