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    End Times

    Peter Turchin

    A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time

    What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain…

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    Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall

    Peter Turchin

    Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics - why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract - this book shows that a similar research program can…

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    Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History

    Peter Turchin

    WE ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The real wage of a US worker today is less than it was 40 years ago-but…

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    Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis

    Peter Turchin

    By bringing together mathematical models, statistical analyses, and field experiments, this book offers a comprehensive synthesis of the theory of population oscillations. It first reviews the conceptual tools that ecologists…

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    Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall

    Peter Turchin

    Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics - why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract - this book shows that a similar research program can…

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    War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires

    Peter Turchin

    Turchin offers a bold, controversial theory of world history, examining amongother topics, how ancient history explains current geopolitics, whether Chinaor Europe can dominate the world, and if America is in…

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    The Wealth Pump: Ruling Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

    Peter Turchin

    From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the ground-breaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a brilliant big-picture explanation for America’s civil strife and its possible endgames

    Peter Turchin, one of the…

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    Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics

    Peter Turchin,Daniel Hoyer

    The numbers that tell the story of humanity.

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    Secular Cycles

    Peter Turchin,Sergey A. Nefedov

    Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, this book examines a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigates the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications. It is…

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