Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings

Jared Diamond’s erudite, engaging and thought-provoking book takes us a huge step forward toward understanding how circumstances and individual talents, determination and strategy make leaders that have the potential to change our world (hopefully for the better) – Daron Acemoglu, Nobel Laureate and co-author of Why Nations Fail
We live in turbulent times, and our societies look to exceptional individuals to navigate us out of crisis. But do leaders matter? And, if yes, what determines a leader’s success? A must-read from the grand master of analytic history – Peter Turchin, author of End Times
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An undisputed global star of comparative history – Andrew Marr * The Times *
One of the few people who have changed the way we see human nature and our history * Independent *
Wears the mantle of a modern-day prophet * Guardian *
One of the most interesting and arresting writers of our age * Mail on Sunday *
The most considered, courageous and sensitive teller of the human story writing today * Independent on Sunday *
A master of at least nine academic disciplines, from anthropology to ornithology, and the subject of his books is never less than everything – Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *

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.

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