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000 -LEADER
fixed length control field	04823nam a2200265Ma 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field	833419884
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field	OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field	20210215172023.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field	060110s2005 nyuabf b 001 0 eng d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	0143036556 (pbk.)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780143036555 (pbk.)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency	U9S
Language of cataloging	fre
Transcribing agency	U9S
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Item number	D537C
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	304.2/8
Edition number	22
Item number	D537C
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number	304.28 Dia
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Diamond, Jared M.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
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Remainder of title	how societies choose to fail or succeed /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Jared Diamond.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Penguin,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	c2005.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	xi, 575 p., [24] p. de pl. :
Other physical details	ill., cartes ;
Dimensions	22 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Prologue : a tale of two farms -- Two farms -- Collapses, past and present -- Vanished Edens? -- A five-point framework -- Businesses and the environment -- The comparative method -- Plan of the book -- pt. 1. Modern Montana -- 1. Under Montana's big sky -- Stan Falkow's story -- Montana and me -- Why begin with Montana? -- Montana's economic history -- Mining -- Forests -- Soil -- Water -- Native and non-native species -- Differing visions -- Attitudes towards regulation -- Rick Laible's story -- Chip Pigman's story -- Tim Huls's story -- John Cook's story -- Montana, model of the world
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Pt. 2. Past societies -- 2. Twilight at Easter -- The quarry's mysteries -- Easter's geography and history -- People and food -- Chiefs, clans, and commoners -- Platforms and statues -- Carving, transporting, erecting -- The vanished forest -- Consequences for society -- Europeans and explanations -- Why was Easter fragile? -- Easter as metaphor -- 3. The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- Pitcairn before the Bounty -- Three dissimilar islands -- Trade -- The movie's ending -- 4. The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors -- Desert farmers -- Tree rings -- Agricultural strategies -- Chaco's problems and packrats -- Regional integration -- Chaco's decline and end -- Chaco's message -- 5. The Maya collapses -- Mysteries of lost cities -- The Maya environment -- Maya agriculture -- Maya history -- Copn -- Complexities of collapses -- Wars and droughts -- Collapse in the southern lowlands -- The Maya message -- 6. The Viking prelude and fugues -- Experiments in the Atlantic -- The Viking explosion -- Autocatalysis -- Viking agriculture -- Iron -- Viking chiefs -- Viking religion -- Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes -- Iceland's environment -- Iceland's history -- Iceland in context -- Vinland -- 7. Norse Greenland's flowering -- Europe's outpost -- Greenland's climate today -- Climate in the past -- Native plants and animals -- Norse settlement -- Farming -- Hunting and fishing -- An integrated economy -- Society -- Trade with Europe -- Self-image -- 8. Norse Greenland's end -- Introduction to the end -- Deforestation -- Soil and turf damage -- The Inuit's predecessors -- Inuit subsistence -- Inuit/Norse relations -- The end -- Ultimate causes of the end -- 9. Opposite paths to success -- Bottom up, top down -- New Guinea highlands -- Tikopia -- Tokugawa problems -- Tokugawa solutions -- Why Japan succeeded -- Other successes
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Pt. 3. Modern societies -- 10. Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- A dilemma -- Events in Rwanda -- More than ethnic hatred -- Buildup in Kanama -- Explosion in Kanama -- Why it happened -- 11. One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- Differences -- Histories -- Causes of divergence -- Dominican environmental impacts -- Balaguer -- The Dominican environment today -- The future -- 12. China, lurching giant -- China's significance -- Background -- Air, water, soil -- Habitat, species, megaprojects -- Consequences -- Connections -- The future -- 13. "Mining" Australia -- Australia's significance -- Soils -- Water -- Distance -- Early history -- Imported values -- Trade and immigration -- Land degradation -- Other environmental problems -- Signs of hope and change
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Pt. 4. Practical lessons -- 14. Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? -- Road map for success -- Failure to anticipate -- Failure to perceive -- Rational bad behavior -- Disastrous values -- Other irrational failures -- Unsuccessful solutions -- Signs of hope -- 15. Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes -- Resource extraction -- Two oil fields -- Oil company motives -- Hardrock mining operations -- Mining company motives -- Differences among mining companies -- The logging industry -- Forest Stewardship Council -- The seafood industry -- Businesses and the public -- 16. The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? -- Introduction -- The most serious problems -- If we don't solve them... -- Life in Los Angeles -- One-liner objections -- The past and the present -- Reasons for hope.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Books

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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Source of classification or shelving scheme	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection code	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Full call number	Barcode	Date last seen	Price effective from	Koha item type
		Dewey Decimal Classification			Non-fiction	Harvest Mission College	Harvest Mission College	General Stacks	17.02.2021	304.28 D537C	011626	17.02.2021	17.02.2021	Books

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