Selected by Bill Gates for his 2019 Summer Reading Recommendations, Jared Diamond's visionary theory on how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't.
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.
*Bill Gates, Summer Reading Recommendations 2019*
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.
*The Sunday Telegraph*
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' and '21 Lessons for the
21st Century'*
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.
*The Times*
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.
*The Evening Standard*
[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.
*The Guardian*
Fascinating globe-hopping study
*The Telegraph*
As a meditation about a world on edge, it is well worth reading
*The Economist*
Persuasive . . . runs refreshingly counter to conventional
wisdom
*Bloomberg*
Jared Diamond does it again: another rich, original, and
fascinating chapter in the human saga-with vital lessons for our
difficult times.
*Steven Pinker, author of 'Enlightenment Now'*
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