Upheaval How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
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A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis YUVAL NOAH HARARI author of SAPIENS . ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** . Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns Germs and Steel and Collapse Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now at a time when crises are erupting around the world he explores what makes certain nations resilient and reveals the factors that influence how nations and individuals can respond to enormous challenges. . In a riveting journey into the recent past he traces how six distinctive modern nations - Finland Chile Indonesia Japan Germany and Australia - have survived defining catastrophes and identifies patterns in their recovery. Looking ahead he investigates the risk that the United States and other countries faced by grave threat are set on a course towards catastrophe. . Adding a rich psychological dimension to the in-depth history geography biology and anthropology that underpin all of Diamond's writing Upheaval is epic in scope but also his most personal book yet.. 'Fascinating ... I finished the book even more optimistic about our ability to solve problems than I started' BILL GATES. 'Jared Diamond does it again another rich original and fascinating chapter in the human saga - with vital lessons for our difficult times' STEVEN PINKER|Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns Germs and Steel which was named one of Time magazine's best non-fiction books of all time Collapse a No. 1 international bestseller and The World Until Yesterday among other books. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology biology ornithology ecology and history among others.|Fascinating... I'm a big fan of everything Jared has written and his latest is no exception. ... I finished the book even more optimistic about our ability to solve problems than I started.|Upheaval is bold wide-ranging and original ... probes large and important questions. Unlike most social scientists Diamond can write invigorating prose that carries the reader along with its sweep ... It deserves to be widely read and pondered.|A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises-which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis.|Jared Diamond is an undisputed global star of comparative history... Britain could learn from this book about how other nations have dealt with turmoil... He finds intellectually stimulating and unusual examples that provide much food for thought.|Diamond writes so well and his frame of reference (across disciplines and languages) is so considerable that almost everything he describes comes across as fresh.|[Diamond] wears the mantle of a modern-day prophet . . . opens textures of historical possibility. Only the most obtuse reader of his latest book on national resilience could miss the signs and portents with which it is studded ... The prophet spares us chiselled commandments but we have been warned.|Fascinating globe-hopping study|As a meditation about a world on edge it is well worth reading|Persuasive . . . runs refreshingly counter to conventional wisdom|Jared Diamond does it again: another rich original and fascinating chapter in the human saga-with vital lessons for our difficult times.|Upheaval is a brilliant gripping personal account of nations in crisis informed by how people respond to crisis. It's an especially timely read today when nations are stressed and have much to learn about how to survive big challenges. I urge you to read it.|In Upheaval I find eye-opening lessons about the political and psychological forces that lead to crisis and then resilience how individuals and nations experience trauma in similar ways and what that suggests about our future and the world's . . . wise and beautiful.|Jared Diamond is one of the deepest thinkers and most authoritative writers of our time-arguably of all time-and Upheaval proves his prescience in analyzing historical crises within nations at a time when national crises have erupted around the world . . . No scientist has ever won the Nobel Prize for literature. Jared Diamond should be the first.|'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns Germs and Steel and Collapse Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now at a time when crises are erupting around the world he explores what makes certain nations resilient and reveals the factors that influence how nations and individuals can respond to enormous challenges. In a riveting journey into the recent past he traces how six distinctive modern nations - Finland Chile Indonesia Japan Germany and Australia - have survived defining catastrophes and identifies patterns in their recovery. Looking ahead he investigates the risk that the United States and other countries faced by grave threat are set on a course towards catastrophe. Adding a rich psychological dimension to the in-depth history geography biology and anthropology that underpin all of Diamond's writing Upheaval is epic in scope but also his most personal book yet.'Fascinating ... I finished the book even more optimistic about our ability to solve problems than I started' BILL GATES'Jared Diamond does it again: another rich original and fascinating chapter in the human saga - with vital lessons for our difficult times' STEVEN PINKER
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