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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- ナレーター: Henry Strozier
- 再生時間: 18 時間 44 分
- カテゴリー: 政治学・社会科学, 政治・政府
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Doug Ordunio
- 再生時間: 16 時間 20 分
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 19 時間 49 分
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If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realising it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress.
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The Culture Map
- Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
- 著者: Erin Meyer
- ナレーター: Lisa Larsen
- 再生時間: 7 時間 42 分
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Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.
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Great help for multi international team
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2020/08/27
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 14 時間 54 分
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
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This book does get you thinking
- 投稿者: Vera Pereira 日付: 2019/05/01
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 17 分
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Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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History and future of human
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2019/03/29
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Doug Ordunio
- 再生時間: 16 時間 20 分
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 19 時間 49 分
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If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realising it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress.
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The Culture Map
- Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
- 著者: Erin Meyer
- ナレーター: Lisa Larsen
- 再生時間: 7 時間 42 分
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Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.
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Great help for multi international team
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2020/08/27
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 14 時間 54 分
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
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This book does get you thinking
- 投稿者: Vera Pereira 日付: 2019/05/01
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 17 分
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Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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History and future of human
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2019/03/29
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 11 時間 41 分
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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Very intellectual
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/01/19
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Life 3.0
- 著者: Max Tegmark
- ナレーター: Rob Shapiro
- 再生時間: 13 時間 29 分
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Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro. We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society - and even our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionise our collective future - and there's nobody better situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Michael Prichard
- 再生時間: 27 時間 1 分
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
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Steve Jobs
- 著者: Walter Isaacson
- ナレーター: Dylan Baker
- 再生時間: 9 時間 18 分
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Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
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A must read for any techie
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/03/24
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銃・病原菌・鉄 下
- 著者: ジャレド ダイアモンド, 倉骨 彰 (翻訳)
- ナレーター: 渡辺 克己
- 再生時間: 11 時間 15 分
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新大陸のインカ帝国の大軍勢が、旧大陸から来た少数のスペイン人に征服されたのはなぜか。
強力な武器と強力な病原菌の有無によると言われているが、ではなぜその逆は起こらなかったのか?
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知りたかったこと
- 投稿者: Maggy 日付: 2020/12/19
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
- 著者: David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante
- ナレーター: David A. Sinclair PhD
- 再生時間: 11 時間 55 分
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From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting audiobook shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls listeners to consider a future where aging can be treated.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 著者: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer (translator)
- ナレーター: L. J. Ganser
- 再生時間: 24 時間 58 分
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- 著者: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- ナレーター: Simon Slater
- 再生時間: 7 時間 59 分
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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A compass to cruise the uncertain world
- 投稿者: "1az" 日付: 2020/08/21
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- 著者: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- ナレーター: Dan Woren
- 再生時間: 17 時間 55 分
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
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Bullshit Jobs
- 著者: David Graeber
- ナレーター: Christopher Ragland
- 再生時間: 12 時間 38 分
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, read by Christopher Ragland. Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working 15-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average working hours have not decreased but increased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society: bullshit jobs.
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The World Until Yesterday
- What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Jay Snyder
- 再生時間: 18 時間 31 分
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Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 36 時間 39 分
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.
In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook 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 US and the world are squandering their natural advantages on a path toward 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 an audiobook that is epic, urgent, and groundbreaking.
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- 出張勝也
- 2019/12/10
歴史のジェネラリスト
Jared Diamondのオーディオブックは、Guns, Germs & Steel についで二冊目です。彼は歴史家ではありませんが、歴史のジェネラリストと言えるのではないかと思います。ジェネラリストとして大きな流れをしっかりとつかみ、示唆に富む方向性を示してくれていると思いました。
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- J. Thomson
- 2019/10/28
Where are the charts and figures for Audible?
There are frequent references to two tables and other figures. Are these accessible to Audible listeners?
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- Dan Fusselman
- 2019/07/07
Change the Speed
The book is great. The speed of the narrator is too slow. Change the audio speed to 1.25 for a significantly better listening experience.
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- Tim B
- 2019/05/17
Terrible narration, buying it in paper instead
I have never had trouble reading Jared Diamond 's books. This one, has put me to sleep several times already. The narrator is incredibly boring and monotone. Terrible,that Diamond's excellent material gets distorted like this.
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- JD
- 2019/12/01
Not sure I get it.
If asked who "my famous author is", I'd likely answer "Jared Diamond" until I read this book. I don't get it. Maybe it was the pressure to publish or just hubris, but I don't get it and I don't care. I read his other books twice each, but didn't finish this. Sorry, but this is just not relevant.
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- hamishr
- 2019/08/05
Interesting but irritating at times
This is an account of the recent history (mainly the last 60 or so years) of countries that Jared Diamond has visited frequently or lived in for an extended period. It is thus takes a subjective approach, based mainly on the the author's personal perspective and the perspectives of the people he came to know in these countries. Why and how countries change is difficult to pin down but the author has tried to do this by assessing each chosen country in terms of a list of change factors. The experiences and perspectives of the author in these countries are interesting but he has taken a highly opinionated approach, which I found irritating, especially when the issues involved are not as clear cut as he makes them out to be. He also tended to digress at times, again quite irritating (the low point: talking about which Australian wines he liked best). I certainly benefitted from listening to this book and, if nothing else, it has inspired me to find out more about these countries in order to gain a broader perspective.
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- M. DEVINNEY
- 2019/07/13
Historical narrative for modern times!
Whether the leader of a family or leader of the free world, you need to read this book. This sometimes cerebral look at what history can teach us about where we are in this country will give you a new perspective and encouragement to do something about it. It starts when we realize that democracies are only an advantage if we compromise to move the best ideas forward. Otherwise, we do have something to worry about from the Chinese economy. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
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- John Faithful Hamer
- 2019/07/25
THE WISDOM OF AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
Jared Diamond wrote this book at the ripe old age of 82. You can quibble with his names and dates here and there—forgetfulness sets in sooner or later, alas—but his erudition shines through regardless on every page. Diamond speaks more than ten languages and has lived an extraordinary life. He’s smarter than you. So quit the nitpicking, shut up, and listen to the man. I think you’ll find that he’s remarkably wise.
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- Marian
- 2019/05/12
The Urine of the Earth in a Teacup
Please read this book! I remember hearing the term, “Historical Theory” as an undergraduate in the 1980’s, and I wondered how a “factual” subject like history could possibly have a theoretical component. Over time, I learned that our operating theories, our perspectives, our frames, our expectations, and our programming matter more to every human activity than the facts. Facts are important, but authors pick facts selectively, choose words purposefully, and express findings based on internalized models. Every academic discipline has a theory. Every human has an operating system, an internal theory, too. Here you have metatheory, theory, and eggs of theory essential to human discourse. Jared Diamond is a polymath; he communicates the emotional fight or flight syndrome of the tortured whale swimming in the ocean of human fireworks while his heart beats on the drum of experimental thinking in the manner of Jonas Salk; he links together his conversations with the prejudiced German or Australian with the nose to smell our common survival fears; his touch is not just the handshake of the Lebanese bird watcher, but also that of the economist seated near the tinderbox anger of modern serfs sick of “rags to riches” myths. He tasted the urine of earth, found it sugary, and gives us his best treatment theories in a world still to invent insulin. Is it dull? Not at all. I did not want to miss a single word. Is it important or relevant, this history book? Absolutely. Diamond’s inner political scientist and inner psychologist informs us of our warts and beauty marks here in the United States within the context of selected global comparisons and contrast. Our leaders, entrepreneurs, monied classes, and citizens must open their hearts, brains, and stomachs to the warnings and potentials provided by Diamond. I want more, Professor. Please continue! Diamond’s discussions of the warts and beauty marks of other countries, such as modern Japan, should be “Eureka” moments for other countries, too. We have only one planet, and, as Diamond points out, we cannot look to the galaxy of other known Earths for ideas. Diamond’s style is intuitive; almost each time I thought, “but what about xyz?” he soon addressed my concern as if he had anticipated my question. This book is easy to follow, but it is not overly simplistic. Is this a book any academic with access to a research library could write? Not a chance. Personal experiences and ponderings across decades inform the results. Is the book contrary to academic research? Very few passages seem to cross the line of unsubstantiated opinion or Diamond’s personal bias. Is it a book of solutions? No. It is a book that gifts verbal concepts to test. It is a book that highlights both incremental change and paradigm shift. It is a book about the medicine of sustainability and the “chronic, incurable, hard to cure diseases” of the political man. It is a book about crimes, failures, lessons, guilts, lack of introspection, mistakes, successes, social responsibilities, democracies, stratifications, social liberalisms, sacrifices, survivals, threats, random chances, plans, and our daily bread. Is your urine sugary? We fix the Earth’s diabetes one operating system at a time. I enjoyed this reading on Audible, but I felt disadvantaged because Audible does not provide access to the charts and tables referenced by Diamond. I will complain to Audible about the need for a pdf companion. If that fails, I will consider buying a companion Kindle version of this book; it is important and essential information. I do not mind investing in two versions of this Diamond book. I repeat: Please read this book, and let’s make the future better.
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- Hank
- 2020/01/09
Countries in trouble have a common thread
Revealing history of countries that failed to control their own greedy and evil leaders. Brings to mind the old adage, those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it
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- Pradthana Jarusriboonchai
- 2019/08/24
Interesting history
I learned a lot of history of all the countries mentioned in the book. That's great. However, the analysis with the framework is a little bit boring, not too exciting. The epilogue is also not too interesting. Sometimes, the quality of the sound is not smooth and equal.
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- Alexander e
- 2019/09/25
Thought provoking
Well presented with very detailed analysis on very unique crises’s experienced by different countries. Didn’t expect this to provide such interesting information and takes on it
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- daveo
- 2019/09/18
Good content, weird style
This book not as brilliant as his previous books but still interesting and original. The attempt to synthesise personal psychology with culture, history and geography doesn't really work, but it is thought provoking. Big problems with this book are: needs editing for style and length - it's too dense and academic in style for the popular market. And a trily godawful style of presentation, plodding, boring voice. Lots of needless repetition and qualification. Also no concession to audio, "see table 1.1", "at the bottom of the page", dont say "e.g." say for example etc. Are they too scared to edit the great prof Diamond?
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- Anthony
- 2019/07/04
Interesting, but slow and drawn out
Lots of history, but not enough reference back to the book title and topic. Examples seemed to be picked because they fitted the model under discussion, rather than developed or proved it.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020/06/02
Insightful and brilliant
Jared Diamond is a favourite author of mine as this book upholds that. Absolutely recommend!
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- Evelyn
- 2020/05/08
nice but not too nice
very useful but not as exceptional as I expected. Also everything about data technology and internet is not mentioned
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- Sasho Bogoevski
- 2020/01/11
Outstanding
Diamond continues his brilliant and unique approach at analyzing big topics with tremendous insights and focus.
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- EMS
- 2019/11/29
Great book.
Once again Jared Diamond writes another excellent book that explains pretty much everything you need to know
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- Nagarajan
- 2019/06/17
An eye opener
A timely narrative in the current but volatile political situations. Thoroughly enjoyed it, excellent narration.
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- Craig
- 2019/06/03
excellent!
superb except for the USA portion, not interesting or entirely relevant to the core aims of the book.
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- Louis Cohalan
- 2020/04/04
Good historical survey
Interesting history lesson to broaden one’s exposure and ponder the future. If new to Diamond, best to read G,G&S or 3rd Chimp before. They are much better. The narrator mispronounced a few things which a good producer should have noticed. Especially « Pinochet ». A bit long and repetitive, best enjoyed at 1.25x.
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- Amnon
- 2020/03/09
Important book yet told in too many details
I love Gerard Diamond’s books. Guns germs AB has steel was a real life changer for me and Collapse was delightfully fascinating. This book isn’t bad but is somewhat written more like a scientific paper than a non fiction book. At times the scope is too much e.g a lengthy chapter about climate change. It’s definitely important but should have been left out of scope. Also there are frequent references to tables yet no PDF with details is available. I had to find the physical book in a shop, take photos of the table and keep them on my phone for reference. Still a worthy book with an interesting point of view.
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- Birrarung fan
- 2019/10/22
A dry history book
Disclaimer: I didn’t finish it. I was really looking forward to it because Guns Germs and Steel blew my mind, and Collapse was also excellent. I even had to check that it was same Jarred Diamond. This was very different and painfully boring in the way I find war history painfully boring. I may have gotten more out of it if I gave it my full attention but for what it’s worth, I wasn’t inspired to continue.
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- Gordon
- 2019/06/20
Interesting perspectives
I liked the authors effort to apply crisis management steps used by people towards crisis that have occurred in his selected countries. It was interesting to consider Australia being in Upheaval. The author gave me some new perspectives on my home country due to his approach. PS - thx for the recommendation Bill;-)
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- Vince in Perth
- 2020/03/26
I felt like I was sitting in a University lecture
I have read some of the authors prior books which led me to this one. Sadly the content of this one was not as compelling and it’s delivery on Audible disappointing. As for the content I found a number of the chapters felt dated and some of the narrative and conclusions shallow. In a couple of cases (Australia and Japan) the conclusions and opinions were also questionable. But what I found most difficult with this book was it is not well suited for Audible. It has the pace and complex contents and details of a University text book and frankly was very difficult to listen to. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it in traditional sense (hard copy).
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- Tomas Vik
- 2019/07/21
Great ideas in unnecessarily talkative book
The history described in this book is astonishing and I had no idea those events happened. the current crises are very thought provoking. the format of the book is hard to digest and unnecessarily talkative. And the audiobook is not easy to digest. eg it reads table and then references it the whole book
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- Shaun Haddrill
- 2020/08/09
A wake-up call for some nations
An interesting comparison between very different states. Detailing the stories of upheaval across the globe and the story of bouncing back, cold comfort for those who have lived through such experiences.
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- Brendan
- 2020/05/23
The central idea is weak
The short historical case studies are interesting in themselves, but the central idea of the relationship between national crises and personal crises is rather weak and unconvincing.
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- Jo Maartens
- 2019/07/10
History in our lifetime
Select case studies with useful insights. Agree with author re quantitative follow up to assessments made. Narrator is very engaging.