Knihy Jareda Diamonda môžeme zaradiť do kategórie diel, ktoré sa snažia vysvetliť fungovanie celého sveta. Patrí do skupiny autorov, ako sú Steven Pinker alebo Yaval Noah Harari.
Jared Diamond v knihe Otrasy. Ako národy riešia svoje krízy skúma, ako sa spoločnosti dostávajú z kríz a porovnáva osobné a národné krízy. Jeho bohatá odborná kompetencia — vrátane antropológie, histórie, fyziológie, ornitológie, ekológie a environmentálnej histórie — mu umožňuje analyzovať krízy z viacerých uhlov. Autor vníma krízu ako bod obratu, ktorý vytvára tlak na vyvinutie nových metód, pretože doterajšie postupy sa ukázali neadekvátne. Na základe analýzy osobných príbehov a práce krízových terapeutov Diamond identifikoval dvanásť faktorov úspešného riešenia krízy a text je pritom osobný, keď autor otvorene opisuje vlastné krízy.
A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. In his international… ...
A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. 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 yet.
