@article{289781,
      recid = {289781},
      author = {Diamond, Jared M.},
      title = {Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed /},
      publisher = {Viking,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xi, 575 p., [24] p. of plates :},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/289781},
}