How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Recommended by Bill Gates and Stewart Brand
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Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicideIn his millioncopy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the tech...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Environment, Most Recommended Books, and Science.
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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