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.
##语言表达力、笔力很一般。史料老生常谈。谈发展趋势和应对,谈剧变,居然还在翻6、70年代的旧帐,对于软件技术、网络应用普及、IT业对世界形势的影响居然提都不提?也难怪,作者说了他不会用电脑...
评分##作者:沈睿的萧萧落木(来自豆瓣) 来源:https://www.douban.com/note/802308110/ 杰瑞德·戴蒙德在世界知识界实在太有名了,因为他的书《枪炮,病菌和钢铁:人类的命运》(1997出版)。 我到现在还清楚地记得第一次看那本书时的冲击感,我看的时候其实是初版的几年之后了,我...
评分 评分##危机处理的框架对于深度分析作用其实不是很大,更像一本专栏合集。也许是期待太高吧。
评分##这本书我原本是很期待的,毕竟作者之前的名气在那,然后也看到多方称赞,上了很多书单推荐。然而,我看了之后,非常失望。盛名之下其实难副。 这本书在我看来总共就3个模块,第一模块用他的分析模型分析了几个国家的发展,在这个分析的过程中,可以看到作者很明显的倾向:美化...
评分##《剧变》是我读过的Jared Diamond教授的第四本书。相比盛名在外的《枪炮,细菌与钢铁》《第三种黑猩猩》《崩溃》阅读过程中给我带来过的因全新的世界观而开辟眼界的心潮澎湃感(我尤其推荐他对于欧亚-美洲文明发展禀赋的比较研究框架,原始印欧语(PIE)的溯源地如何确认的转述...
评分1. 变化是绝对的,万事万物皆处在运动变化之中,只是快慢、程度及方式不同而已。人虽然喜欢追求新奇、刺激的感觉,但总还是倾向于喜欢确定性。个人或社会都是如此,总是厌恶变化的,如果变得慢、变得小还可适应,如果来得快、来得大、来得剧烈,也即贾雷德·戴蒙德所说的剧变,...
评分##作者准备这部书的6年间包括落笔时绝对不会预料到2020年这场突如其来的疫情,但他在书中的分析和预测,今天来看,一步步地更加接近于现实。 围绕着12个“影响国家危机结果的因素”,作者以芬兰(芬苏之战)、日本(明治维新)、德国(一战、二战)、澳大利亚(身份回归)、智利...
评分##作者准备这部书的6年间包括落笔时绝对不会预料到2020年这场突如其来的疫情,但他在书中的分析和预测,今天来看,一步步地更加接近于现实。 围绕着12个“影响国家危机结果的因素”,作者以芬兰(芬苏之战)、日本(明治维新)、德国(一战、二战)、澳大利亚(身份回归)、智利...
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