Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Format: Electronic books
Number of pages: 589
Description: This edition with a new afterord published 2011
Table of contents: title: Prologue: A tale of two farms --; title: Under Montana's big sky --; title: Twilight at Easter --; title: The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands --; title: The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors --; title: The Maya collapses --; title: The Viking prelude and fugues --; title: Norse Greenland's flowering --; title: Norse Greenland's end --; title: Opposite paths to success --; title: Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide --; title: One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti --; title: China, lurching giant --; title: "Mining" Australia --; title: Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? --; title: Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes --; title: The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? --; title: Afterword: Angkor's rise and fall.