Name: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
SKU: 51606548
Price: 36.25 NZD
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Author: Jared Diamond
ISBN: 9780316409131

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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jared Diamond

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

512

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780316409131

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

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Synopsis "Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis "

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises.Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past? Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal book yet.

Jared Diamond

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Jared M. Diamond (Boston, 1937) es geógrafo, fisiólogo, biólogo evolutivo y divulgador científico estadounidense, conocido por estudiar cómo el ambiente, la geografía y las decisiones humanas han condicionado el destino de las sociedades. En Colapso. Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen (2005), examina casos tan diversos como la Isla de Pascua, los mayas, los anasazi y los asentamientos vikingos de Groenlandia para identificar factores que pueden conducir al declive de una civilización: deterioro ambiental, cambios climáticos, conflictos, pérdida de socios comerciales y respuestas políticas inadecuadas. Su enfoque combina historia, ecología y antropología para convertir el pasado en una advertencia sobre problemas contemporáneos.

Diamond alcanzó reconocimiento internacional con Armas, gérmenes y acero, obra que recibió el Premio Pulitzer de No Ficción en 1998 y que consolidó su particular manera de explicar grandes procesos históricos mediante factores geográficos y ecológicos. También es autor de El tercer chimpancé, El mundo hasta ayer y Crisis, entre otros títulos. Su trayectoria académica en la UCLA y sus investigaciones sobre ecología, evolución y sociedades humanas lo han convertido en una figura influyente de la divulgación científica, aunque algunas de sus interpretaciones históricas han generado debate entre especialistas.

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