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Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the ...
Peter TurchinGenetic evolution can't explain this anomaly. Something else is going on. How did we become the ultrasocial animal? Follow the evolutionary scientist Peter Turchin on a epic journey through time.
History & Mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development ...
Full viewWhy Do We Need Mathematical Models of Historical Processes (by Peter Turchin , Audrey Korotayev, and Leonid Grinin) 4 Peter Turchin Scientific Prediction in Historical Sociology: Ibn Khaldun meets Al Saud 9 Jilrgen Kluver Logical and ...
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Peter TurchinLike Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires.
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis
Peter TurchinMany people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in ...
Ian MorrisPeter Abigail, Daron Acemoglu, David Armitage, Al Bergesen, Mat Burrows, Banning Garrett, Elhanan Helpman, Mike McCormick, Dick O'Neill, Jim Robinson, Peter Turchin, and Norman Vasu invited me to highly informative meetings and ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical ...
Peter TurchinBy bringing together mathematical models, statistical analyses, and field experiments, this book offers a comprehensive new synthesis of the theory of population oscillations.
Quantitative Analysis of Movement: Measuring and Modeling ...
Peter TurchinThis book presents a systematic exposition of quantitative methods for analyzing and modeling movements of organisms in the field.
Secular Cycles
Peter TurchinThis book tests that theory's specific and quantitative predictions by tracing the dynamics of population numbers, prices and real wages, elite numbers and incomes, state finances, and sociopolitical instability.
Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of ...
Peter TurchinAges of Discord marshals Structural-Demograpic Theory and detailed historical data to show that this is, indeed, the case.
Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200-1920: Family, ...
PreviewIbid., 151. The 'Seshat: Global History Databank' project was founded in 2011 by Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse and Pieter François. The project is supported by an ESRC Large Grant to the University of Oxford, entitled 'Ritual, Community, ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977
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At Dawns First Twilight
Chuck CunninghamThis time, Major Albert McClellan snapped to attention and presented a crisp salute. Turchin ignored him for a moment, shuffling through some papers on his table. After a moment, he looked up to McClellan with disgust and gave him half of a ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Dr. Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Baseball at Tulane University
S. Derby GisclairNevertheless, the school is proceeding with plans tor a multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion of Turchin Stadium, marking the next growth phase of baseball at Tulane University. The long and rich tradition of baseball at Tulane ...
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter
Robert SteinerSixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel
Lisa JewellPeter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Dr. Laurence J. PeterWith the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...
Paul Dickson280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...
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Peter's Almanac
Laurence J. PeterProviding support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time
Willie M. GrahamPeter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...
Jack J. GibsonJohn Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective
Peter HujarPeter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...
Josh FrankMaybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and ...
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions
PreviewThe author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
South Asia: An Environmental History
Christopher V. Hill... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics
PreviewBoettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...
Haunted London
Peter UnderwoodPeter Underwood. unidentified Frenchwoman accompanied by her ghost dog that used to haunt the old houses behind St Peter's church in Cranley Gardens. A huddled form, thought to be the ghost of Catherine Eddowes, a Jack the Ripper ...
who called from an unknown number?