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New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing because of rising sea levels ...
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Blood and Treasure is the story of the economics of conflict from the Viking Age to the war in Ukraine.
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How human institutions markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
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