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Atrocitology Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements

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If we study history to avoid the mistakes of the past, then there can be no more important place to start than this eye-opening and entertaining book. In this wholly original and remarkably ambitious work, 'Atrocitologist' Matthew White considers man's inhumanity to man across several thousand years of history. While sceptical of any grand theory for the causes of human violence, White does share three big lessons gleaned from his careful statistical analysis:

 

one, chaos is more deadly than tyranny;

two, the world is even more disorganised than we realise; and

three, wars kill more civilians than soldiers (in fact, the army is usually the safest place to be).

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