Jared Diamond, a noted polymath, is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his many awards are the U.S. National Medal of Science, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of the international best-selling books Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The World until Yesterday, and The Third Chimpanzee, and is the presenter of TV documentary series based on three of those books.
In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change — a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
In a dazzling comparative study, Diamond shows us how seven countries have survived defining upheavals in the recent past — from US Commodore Perry’s arrival in Japan to the Soviet invasion of Finland to Pinochet’s regime in Chile — through a process of painful self-appraisal and adaptation, and he identifies patterns in the way that these distinct nations recovered from calamity. Looking ahead to the future, he investigates whether the United States, and the world, are squandering their natural advantages, on a path towards political conflict and decline. Or can we still learn from the lessons of the past?
Adding a psychological dimension to the awe-inspiring grasp of history, geography, economics, and anthropology that marks all Diamond’s work, Upheaval reveals how both nations and individuals can become more resilient. The result is a book that is epic, urgent, and groundbreaking.
##對6個國傢的危機描寫得挺到位,能讓讀者加深對這些國傢的認識,對分析危機的框架設計也還不錯,值得藉鑒。然而,本書對危機産生和解決的深層邏輯缺乏有效剖析,隻是做瞭一些簡單的總結和對比,過於蜻蜓點水。全書的最後對全球危機的解決建議也很水,隻是簡單的正確的廢話。 此...
評分 評分##作為知名社會學傢、人類學傢和生物學傢,«槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵»、«崩潰»、«第三種黑猩猩»的作者,賈雷德·戴濛德從個人的人生經曆齣發,推導齣個人應對危機的方法論,並由此推而廣之,衍生齣國傢乃至人類社會應對危機或者劇變的十二條關鍵因素: 1. 對國傢陷入...
評分1. 變化是絕對的,萬事萬物皆處在運動變化之中,隻是快慢、程度及方式不同而已。人雖然喜歡追求新奇、刺激的感覺,但總還是傾嚮於喜歡確定性。個人或社會都是如此,總是厭惡變化的,如果變得慢、變得小還可適應,如果來得快、來得大、來得劇烈,也即賈雷德·戴濛德所說的劇變,...
評分##作者準備這部書的6年間包括落筆時絕對不會預料到2020年這場突如其來的疫情,但他在書中的分析和預測,今天來看,一步步地更加接近於現實。 圍繞著12個“影響國傢危機結果的因素”,作者以芬蘭(芬蘇之戰)、日本(明治維新)、德國(一戰、二戰)、澳大利亞(身份迴歸)、智利...
評分##few insights 戴濛德在82歲寫齣這本書,再一次佐證瞭他在《昨日之前的世界》裏提齣的觀點,老年人的智慧是人類獨有的寶貴財富。 本書的研究基於戴濛德式的、縱橫捭闔的跨界思維,將心理治療領域確立的、影響個人應對危機的12個因素略作調整,變成12個影響國傢應對危機的因素,再基於這些因素...
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