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82.Murray, C.: Human Accomplishment, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003
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85.Murray, C.: Human Accomplishment, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003
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101.Reilly, R.R.: The Closing of the Muslim Mind, ISI Books, 2010
102.Ferguson, N.: Civilization, The West and the Rest, Penguin Books, 2011
103.Acemoglu, D. & Robinson J.A.: Why Nations Fail, Crown Business, 2012
104.Gruber, C.: The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections, Indiana University Press, 2009
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107.Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy Science and the Islamic World – The Quest for Rapprochement, Physics Today, august 2007
108.Allawi, A.A.: The Crises of Islamic Civilization, Yale University Press, 2009
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110.Acemoglu, D. & Robinson J.A.: Why Nations Fail, Crown Business, 2012
111.Ibid.
112.Huff, T.E.: The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West, Cambridge University Press, 1993
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115.Brewer, J.: The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eigtheenth Century, HarperCollins, 1997
116.Acemogly, D. & Robinson J.A: Why Nations Fail, Crown Business, 2012
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119.Weber; M, P.R. Baehr & G.C. Wells: The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism and other Writings, Penguin, 2002
120.Acemogly, D. & Robinson J.A.: Why Nations Fail, Crown Publishing, 2012
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125.125 Heider, K.: Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors, Wadsworth Publishing, 1996
126.126 LeBlanc,S.A.: Constant Battles, St. Martin’s Press, 2003
127.127 Gat, A.: War in Human Civilization, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
128.128 Ibid
129.129 Curtis, E.S.: The North American Indian, Volume 9, Classic Books, 1913
130.130 Schwager, R: Must There Be Scapegoats?: Violence and Redemption in the Bible, Gracewing, 2000
131.White, M: The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities, W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
132.Fromkin, D.: The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century, Vintage, 2000
133.Pinker, S.: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Penguin Books, 2012
134.Ibid
135.http://www.allempires.com/article/index.php?q=fate_of_roman_emperors
136.Ibid.
137.Kincaid, D.: British Social Life in India, 1608-1937, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1973
138.Olson, M: Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, Oxford University Press, 2000
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143.Fromkin, D.: The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century, Vintage, 2000
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153.Tocqueville, AD.: Democracy in America, Penguin Classics, 2003
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156.Sowell, T.: Intellectuals and Society, Basic Books, 2011
157.Flynn, J.R.: Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, 2012
158.Lynn, R. & Vanhanen T.: IQ and the Wealth of Nations, Praeger Publishers, 2002
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169.Feynman, R.P.: There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom, speech December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
170.Cressler, J.D.: Silicon Earth: Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2009
171.Brock, D.: Understanding Moore’s Law: Four Decades of Innovation, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2006
172.Report to the President and Congress, Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology on the Fourth, Executive Office of the President President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2010
173.Kelly, K.: Was Moore’s Law Inevitable?, The Technium, 17 July 2009, http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/07/was_moores_law.php
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175.West, Geoffrey.: Growth, Innovation, Scaling and the Pace of Life, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007
176.Bornstein, M.C & H.G. Bornstein: The Pace of Life, Nature 256, February, 1976
177.Carlino, G. A., Chatterjee S. & Hunt, R.M.: Urban Density and the Rate of Invention, FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 06-41, 2006
178.Turing Test breakthrough as super-computer becomes first to convince us it’s human, The Independent, June 08, 2014
179.Craig Venter Wants to Solve the World’s Energy Crisis, Wired, 18 May, 2012.
180.Pet kitten cloned for Christmas, BBC News, 23 December, 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4120179.stm
181.Cloning Man’s Best Friend: How Far Would You Go to Keep Fido? - ABC News, abcnews.go.com. 21 May, 2008
182.First Gene Therapy Successful Against Aging-Associated Decline: Mouse Lifespan Extended Up to 24% With a Single Treatment, Science News, 14 May, 2012
183.Peng C., Zuo Y., Kwan K.M. et al.: Blueberry extract prolongs life span of Drosophila melanogaster, Exp Gerontol., 472, Feb, 2012
184.Ingenious, The Economist, February 8th, 2014.
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188.Scientists in Germany Draft Neanderthal Genome, New York Times, 12 Feb, 2009
189.Judson , O.: A Bug’s Death, New York Times,25 Sept , 2003
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191.A new challenge, The Economist, October 11, 2014
192.Crosby, F.: The Complete Guide to Fighters & Bombers of the World, Hermes House, 2006
193.Anderson, C.: How I Accidentally Kickstarted the Domestic Drone Boom, Wired, 22 June, 2012
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199.Sunstein, C.R.: Infotopia, Oxford University Press, 2008
200.Bajarin, T.: Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future, Time.com, May 19, 2014
201.The Success of Small Countries, Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2014
204.www.udacity.com, www.udemy.com
205.The digital degree, The Economist, 28 June, 2014
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212.Irwin, M.: Did Thomas Piketty Get His Math Wrong?, International New York Times, 24 May, 2014
213.Moving one Up, Wall Street Journal, 13 Nov, 2007
214.The 400 Individual Income Tax Returns Reporting the Highest Adjusted Gross Incomes Each Year, 1992-2008, IRS, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/08intop400.pdf. The relevant numbers appear in table 4.
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217.Roosevelt, T.: Conservation as a National Duty, Speech Text, Voices of Democracy, http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/theodore-roosevelt-conservation-as-a-national-duty-speech-text/
218.Ibid
219.Governers Cheer Roosevelt’s Talk, New York Times, 14 May, 1908
220.Cyprianus, T.C.: Address to Demetrianus, Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2011
221.Fagan, B.M.: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850, Basic Books, 2001 Malthus, T.: An Essay on the Principle of Population, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010
222.Jevons, W.S.: The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines, A.M. Kelley, 1865
223.Fairfield, O.: The Plundered Planet, Faber and Faber Limited, 1948
224.Vogt, W.: Our Road to Survival, William Sloane Associates, 1948
225.Ehrlich, P.: The Population Bomb, Buccaneer Books, 1995
226.Erlich, P. R.: Looking Backward from 2000 A.D. The Progressive, April 1970.
227.Paddock, W. & Paddock, P.: Famine – 1975!, Little, Brown, 1967
228.World Health Organization: Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases, WHO Technical Report Series 916, 2003
229.Devereux, S.: Famine in the Twentieth Century, IDS Working Paper 105, 2000
230.Ehrlich, P.: The Population Bomb, Buccaneer Books, 1995
231.A Generation in Search of a Future, edited by George Wald from his speech given on March 4, 1969, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, http://www.elijahwald.com/generation.html
232.Lomborg, B.: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Cambridge University Press, 2001
233.Simon, J.: Population Matters. Transaction Publications, 1990
234.Barnett, H.J. & Morse C.: Scarcity and Growth: The Economics of Natural Resource Availability, RFF Press, 1965
235.Simon, J.: Paul Ehrlich Saying It Is So Doesn’t Make It So, Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 2, June 1982
236.Simon, J.: The Ultimate Resource, Princeton University Press, 1981. Tierney, J.: Betting on the Planet, New York Times, December 2002, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/02/magazine/betting-on-the-planet.html?src=pm
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238.Walter, E.: The Immorality of Limiting Growth, State University of New York Press, 1981
239.http://www.iea.org/aboutus/faqs/gas/
240.Wellinger, A.: Algal Biomass – Does it save the world?, IEA Biooenergy, April 2009
241.Institute for Energy research, http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/growth-sake-humans-just-sake-growth
242.Sivak, M.: Effects of Vehicle Fuel Economy, Distance Travelled, and Vehicle Load on the Amount of Fuel Used for Personal Transportation: 1970-2010, The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, 2013
243.Fuel Comparison, European Nuclear Society, 2013, http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/f/fuelcomparison.htm
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246.Ongena, J. et al.: Energy for Future Centuries – Will Fusion be an Inexhaustible, Safe and Clean Energy Source?, European Fusion Development Agreement, 2001
247.Clark, G.: A Farewell to Alms, Princeton University Press, 2008
248.Nanosats are go!, the Economist, June 7th, 2014
249.George, H.: Progress and Prosperity, Amazon Digital Services, http://rapgenius.com/Henry-george-progress-and-poverty-book-ii-chap-3-lyrics
250.Lomborg, B.: The truth about the environment, The Economist, 2 Aug, 2001 See also: Lomborg, B.: The environmental Litany and data,
251.http://www.fringer.org/wp-content/writings/litany.pdf
252.Hesser, L.: The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger, Durban House, 2006
253.Charles, D: Lords Of The Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, And The Future Of Food, Basic Books, 2002
254.Ibid.
255.A positive step towards a more sustainable approach to animal feed, Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 12/04/2013, http://www.abcinformation.org/index.php/media-centre/press-releases
256.Monsanto Will Undertake Three-Point Commitment to Double Yield in Three Major Crops, Make More Efficient Use of Natural Resources and Improve Farmer Lives, Monsanto http://monsanto.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=27632&item=76958
257.The Millennium Development Goals Report, UN, 2008
258.Santen, R.v., D. Khoe & B. Vermeer: 2030: Technology That Will Change the World, Oxford University Press, 2000
259.Lumber Statistics, US Geological Survey, http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/wood.pdf
260.Iron and Steel Statistics, U.S. Geological Survey, http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/ironsteel.pdf
261.Middleton, D.: The Simon-Ehrlich Wager at Seven Billion People, Whatsupwiththat, 25 January 25, 2012 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/25/the-simon-ehrlich-wager-at-seven-billion-people/
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263.Ship Logs and Journals of Don Felipe Gonzalez, 1770, http://www.easterislandtraveling.com/easter-island/history/ship-logs-and-journals/don-felipe-gonzalez-1770/
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