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By Bill Fawcett
Publish 12 months note: First released July twenty fourth 2012
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An engrossing and fact-filled compendium of undying classes we continue forgetting--over and many times . . .
It is related that those that don't study from historical past are doomed to copy it. And so now we have. repeatedly humankind has conquer nice turmoil in simple terms to disregard well-deserved knowledge on the very worst second. Borrowing extra from Groundhog Day than D-day, invoice Fawcett illuminates a number of the predicaments, either notorious and vague, that experience vexed us for centuries--and simply might clarify lots of today's international conflicts. via fourteen chapters, Doomed to copy is brim-full of minutiae, historic oddities, and engaging insights into our hottest mistakes.
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• What rather stops terrorists
• How inflation and recession helped set the level for the Nazis to take power
• What rather ended the nice melancholy and no matter if it will probably paintings today
• What heritage predicts for the ultimate result of the Arab Spring
• Swine flu, chicken flu, and the possibilities of one other around the world plague
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