Jared Diamond

El multipremiado profesor Diamond divulga los resultados de su apasionante estudio Qu se puede aprender sobre las grandes cuestiones de las ciencias sociales a trav s de la observaci n? Jared Diamond comenz su carrera acad mica como naturalista: observaba a los p jaros y deduc a reglas de su comportamiento. Cuando cambi de foco y empez a estudiar organismos complejos como las sociedades humanas, no cambi de m todo, y en este breve libro explica cu nto se puede aprender a trav s de este procedimiento. En siete breves cap tulos explica por qu unos pa ses son pobres y otros ricos, c mo influyen las instituciones en la prosperidad, la influencia de la geograf a en el devenir de China frente al de Europa, el papel de las crisis nacionales, y los grandes problemas que el mundo afronta hoy en d a. Un libro fascinante que en pocas p ginas compone una lecci n magistral sobre las grandes cuestiones de la actualidad y qu lecciones podemos sacar de las ciencias sociales para afrontarlas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The multi-award-winning professor Diamond divulges the results of his thrilling study. What can we learn about social science's great questions through observation? Jared Diamond began his academic career as a naturalist: he observed birds and deducted the rules of their behavior. When he changed his focus and began studying complex organisms, such as human societies, he didn't change his method, and in this brief book explains how much we can learn through this process. In seven short chapters, Diamond explains why some countries are poor and others rich, how institutions influence prosperity, the impact of geography in China's future compared to that of Europe's, the role of national crises, and great problems the world is currently facing. A fascinating book that, in but a few pages, composes a master class on the great issues of today and the lessons we can extract from social science to address them.

Perezhivajuschaja neprostye vremena barista Keti dazhe ne podozrevala o suschestvovanii Dzhessi Mejsa, poka sluchajno ne poluchila zavidnuju rol ego novoj gorjachej podruzhki v muzykalnom klipe. Uvy, Keti slishkom pozdno uznaet o tom, chto on lovelas. Ona ne tak predstavljala sebe protsess lechenija razbitogo serdtsa, no ot prikosnovenij Dzhessi vspykhivajut iskry. Paren delaet Keti zamanchivoe predlozhenie: pritvoritsja ego devushkoj na shest nedel, poka on budet prodvigat novyj albom. Edinstvennoe uslovie: ikh pylkie objatija i potselui budut tolko dlja kamer. Eto vpolne ustraivaet Keti, poskolku ona ne sobiraetsja doverjat svoe serdtse rokeru. No smozhet li devushka ustojat?

Raamat võrdleb kuut riiki, mis on oma lähiajaloos üle elanud murrangu: Jaapani sunnitud avanemine kommodoor Perry laevastiku survel, ohvriterohked riigipöörded Tshiilis ja Indoneesias ning muutused Austraalias, Saksamaal ja Soomes pärast Teist maailmasõda. Et autor on elanud kõnealusest kuuest riigist viies ja oskab ka vastavaid keeli, on tal võimalik tuua näiteid otseallikatest. Tema sõnul tulid kõik need riigid oma kriisiga vahelduva eduga toime tänu sellistele mehhanismidele nagu vastutuse võtmine, valulikult aus eneseanalüüs ja teiste eeskujudest õppimine. Tulevikku vaadates käsitletakse seda, kuidas USA, Jaapan ja terve maailm tulevad praegu toime enda ees seisvate probleemidega. Raamatut illustreerivad fotod ajaloolistest sündmustest ja murranguhetkedest. Jared Diamond (sünd 1937. a) on geograaf, ajaloolane, ornitoloog ja hulga populaarteaduslike raamatute autor ning California Ülikooli geograafiaprofessor, ta on üks Ameerika Ühendriikide mõjukamaid intellektuaale. Tema raamatuid on tõlgitud kümnetesse keeltesse. Eesti keeles on varem ilmunud tema teos "Püssid, pisikud ja teras: inimühiskondade erinevad saatused" (2002).

New York Times çoksatan yazari Anthony William’dan, iki yüzden fazla belirti ve hastaligin gerçek nedenlerini, 3:6:9 Arinmasi ile diger hayat kurtaran Medikal Medyum arinmalarinin ve özel takviye dozajlarinin iyilesmek için size nasil yardimci olabilecegini ögrenin.

"The best baseball book I've read in years." -- Sam Walker - "An exhilarating story of innovation." -- Ben Reiter - "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." -- Baseball ProspectusFrom the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn't steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it's the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseball's biggest stars--including Aaron Judge, J. D. Martinez, and Justin Turner--who remade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, and remade the game in the process. These coaches, many of them baseball washouts who have reinvented themselves as swing gurus, for years were one of the game's best-kept secrets. Among their ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, and an ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique of Japanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has moved from the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the way hitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scrambling for their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. And Diamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists the tutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in the annual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium. Swing Kings is both a rollicking history of baseball's recent past and a deeply reported, character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old and new, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. Jared Diamond has written a masterful chronicle of America's pastime at the crossroads.

Merging the rigor of the scientific method with the technologies of GIS GIS for Science, Volume 2: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics brings to life a continuing collection of current, real-world examples of scientists using geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data science to expand our understand of the world. Co-edited by Esri Chief Scientist Dawn Wright and Esri Technology Writer and Information Designer Christian Harder and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond, these case studies are part of a global effort to find ways to sustain a livable environment for all life on this planet. The contributors of GIS for Science, Volume 2: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics represent a cross section of scientists who employ data gathered from satellites, aircraft, ships, drones, and myriad other remote-sensing and on-site technologies. This collected data is brought to life with GIS and the broader realm of spatial data science to study a range of issues relevant to our understanding of planet Earth—including epidemiology in light of the COVID-19 pandemic; sustainable precision agriculture; predicting geological processes below the surface of the earth; leveraging GIS near-realtime disaster response, recovery, resilience and reporting; the latest innovations in monitoring air quality; and more. Their stories also show in very practical terms how ArcGIS software and the ArcGIS Online cloud-based system work as a comprehensive geospatial platform to support research, collaboration, spatial analysis, and science communication across many settings and communities. A rich supplementary web site—gisforscience.com—includes actual data along with additional maps, videos, web apps, story maps, workflows and snippets of computer code, including Python notebooks, for readers curious to learn more. Written for professional scientists, the swelling ranks of citizen scientists, and anyone interested in science and geography, GIS for Science, Volume 2: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics offers wonderful examples of our impulse to dream, discover, and understand, as coupled with the rigor and discipline of the scientific method and the foundation of geography. See how scientists from a variety of disciplines are solving some of the world's most pressing problems using geographic information systems—GIS.

'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 ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, at a time when crises are erupting around the world, he explores what makes certain nations resilient, and reveals the factors that influence how nations and individuals can respond to enormous challenges. In a riveting journey into the recent past, he traces how six distinctive modern nations - Finland, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Australia - have survived defining catastrophes, and identifies patterns in their recovery. Looking ahead, he investigates the risk that the United States and other countries, faced by grave threat, are set on a course towards catastrophe. Adding a rich psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology and anthropology that underpin all of Diamond's writing, Upheaval is epic in scope, but also his most personal book yet.'Fascinating ... I finished the book even more optimistic about our ability to solve problems than I started' BILL GATES'Jared Diamond does it again: another rich, original and fascinating chapter in the human saga - with vital lessons for our difficult times' STEVEN PINKER

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.

This is the best baseball book I've read in years. Swing Kings is a love letter to small people with big ideas. -- Sam Walker, author of The Captain ClassFrom the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn't steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it's the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseball's biggest stars--including Aaron Judge, J. D. Martinez, and Justin Turner--who remade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, and remade the game in the process. These coaches, many of them baseball washouts who have reinvented themselves as swing gurus, for years were one of the game's best-kept secrets. Among their ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, and an ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique of Japanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has moved from the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the way hitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scrambling for their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. And Diamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists the tutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in the annual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium. Swing Kings is both a rollicking history of baseball's recent past and a deeply reported, character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old and new, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. Jared Diamond has written a masterful chronicle of America's pastime at the crossroads.

This is the best baseball book I've read in years. Swing Kings is a love letter to small people with big ideas. -- Sam Walker, author of The Captain ClassFrom the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn't steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it's the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseball's biggest stars--including Aaron Judge, J. D. Martinez, and Justin Turner--who remade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, and remade the game in the process. These coaches, many of them baseball washouts who have reinvented themselves as swing gurus, for years were one of the game's best-kept secrets. Among their ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, and an ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique of Japanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has moved from the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the way hitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scrambling for their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. And Diamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists the tutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in the annual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium. Swing Kings is both a rollicking history of baseball's recent past and a deeply reported, character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old and new, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. Jared Diamond has written a masterful chronicle of America's pastime at the crossroads.

This is the best baseball book I've read in years. Swing Kings is a love letter to small people with big ideas. -- Sam Walker, author of The Captain ClassFrom the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn't steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it's the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseball's biggest stars--including Aaron Judge, J. D. Martinez, and Justin Turner--who remade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, and remade the game in the process. These coaches, many of them baseball washouts who have reinvented themselves as swing gurus, for years were one of the game's best-kept secrets. Among their ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, and an ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique of Japanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has moved from the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the way hitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scrambling for their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. And Diamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists the tutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in the annual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium. Swing Kings is both a rollicking history of baseball's recent past and a deeply reported, character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old and new, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. Jared Diamond has written a masterful chronicle of America's pastime at the crossroads.

"The best baseball book I've read in years." -- Sam Walker - "An exhilarating story of innovation." -- Ben Reiter - "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." -- Baseball ProspectusFrom the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age. We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn't steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it's the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseball's biggest stars--including Aaron Judge, J. D. Martinez, and Justin Turner--who remade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, and remade the game in the process. These coaches, many of them baseball washouts who have reinvented themselves as swing gurus, for years were one of the game's best-kept secrets. Among their ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, and an ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique of Japanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has moved from the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the way hitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scrambling for their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. And Diamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists the tutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in the annual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium. Swing Kings is both a rollicking history of baseball's recent past and a deeply reported, character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old and new, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. Jared Diamond has written a masterful chronicle of America's pastime at the crossroads.

Tässä Pulizerin palkinnon saaneessa teoksessa Jared Diamond vastaa kysymykseen, miksi ihmisen kulttuurien kehityskaaret ovat olleet niin erilaiset. Miksi espanjalaiset valloittivat inkavaltion eivätkä inkat Espanjaa? Käy ilmi, että ainoa perustava syy joidenkin kulttuurien vahvuuteen on niiden alkuperäisen elinympäristön piirteissä, ennen kaikkea kesytykseen soveliaiden suurten nisäkkäiden ja viljelykäyttöön soveliaiden kasvien määrissä. Eniten näitä lajeja on ollut Euraasiassa ja ennen kaikkea Hedelmällisessä puolikuussa, nykyisessä Lähi-idässä. Kaikki maailmaa nykyään hallitsevat kulttuurit ovat lähtöisin Euraasiasta. Ihmisen käytössä eläimet ja kasvit loivat edellytykset muiden kulttuurien valloittamisvälineiden kehittämiselle, esimerkiksi teknologialle, kirjoitukselle, tehokkaille yhteiskuntajärjestelmille ja mahtaville armeijoille, sekä tappaville kulkutaudeille. Espanjalaisten voitto inkoista ei johtunut siitä, että he olivat ihmisinä inkoja parempia, vaan heidän kulttuurillaan oli tehokkaammat valloituksen välineet. Tykit, taudit ja teräs osoittaa, että ihminen ja hänen kulttuurinsa kehitys ovat monin kohtalokkain tavoin kiinni ympäristönsä luonnossa.

Jared Diamonds bruk av historie, geografi, biologi og antropologi har tegnet de helt store bildene av menneskesamfunnenes utvikling. Med «Våpen, pest & stål» og «Kollaps» endret han vår forståelse av hvorfor sivilisasjoner blomstrer eller går under. I «Opp av asken» legger han til en psykologisk dimensjon: Kan nasjoner møte kriser på nesten samme måte som mennesker takler traumer? Diamond sammenligner hvordan seks land har overlevd dramatiske omveltninger. Japans tvungne åpning mot Vesten i 1853, Finlands vinterkrig mot Sovjetunionen, Chiles og Indonesias brutale statskupp og de store transformasjonene til Tyskland og Australia etter krigen. Disse krisene var høyst forskjellige, men landene taklet dem ved å innta nye nasjonale identiteter. Gjennom erkjennelse av ansvar, smertefull selvvurdering og ved å gjøre selektive forandringer gjorde de krisene om til vendepunkter i sin historie. I bokas siste del tar Diamond for seg det han mener er de mest akutte truslene mot USA, Japan og resten av verden. Demokratiene er under press, atomtrusselen reell, og vi går inn i en tid preget av klimaendringer og ressursmangel. Er det vår evne til å lære av fortiden som kan redde oss alle?