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100	1		_aTurchin, Peter,
245	1	0	_aWar and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations / _cPeter Turchin.
260			_aNew York : _bPi Press, _cc2006.
300			_aviii, 405 p. : _bmaps ; _c24 cm.
505			_aPart 1 : Imperiogenesis -- The rise of empires 1. A band of adventures defeats a kingdom / Ermak's Conquering Cossacks -- 2. Life on the edge / The transformation of Russia- and America -- 3. Slaughter in the forest / At the limites of the Roman empire -- 4. Asabiya in the desert / Ibn Kaldun discovers the key to history -- 5. The myth of self-Interest / and the science of cooperation -- 6.Born to be wolves / the origins of Rome -- A medieval black hole /The rise of the Great European powers on Carolingian Marches Part 2: Imperiorathosis -- The fall of empires 8.The other side of the wheel of fortune / from the glorious thirteenth century into the abyss of the fourteenth -- 9. A new idea of Renaissance / why human conflict is like a forest fire and an Epidemic -- 10. The Matthew principle / why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer -- 11. Wheels with in wheels / the many declines of the Roman Empire Part 3 : Cliodynamics -- A new kind of history 12. War and peace and particles / the science of history -- 13. The bowling Alley in history / measuring the decline of social capital -- 14. The end of Empire? / how the mobile phone is changing cliodynamics
650		0	_aWorld history.
650		0	_aHistory _xMathematical models.
650		0	_aHistoriometry.
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