[how societies choose to fail or succeed] Diamond, Jared M. creator Murney, Christopher. nrt sound recording-nonmusical history nyu New York Penguin Audio p2005 2004 monographic eng

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8 sound discs (ca. 9.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. 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 ignore the signals our environment gives us. Jared Diamond. Subtitle from container. Abridged. Compact discs. Read by Christopher Murney. Social history Case studies Social change Case studies Environmental policy Case studies 0143057189 2005582413 305718-9 Penguin Audio http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2005582413-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2005582413-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2005582413-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2005582413-d.html DLC 051201 20161102131149.0 14186095