It Can't Happen Here (Or Can It?)The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science-A Scientist's WarningA Conversation with Author Peter J. Hotez. [PDF]
Am J Trop Med HygDunavan CP.
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Water and national identity in the Netherlands; the history of an idea. [PDF]
Water Hist, 2020 Mostert E.
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America / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
An article from the "Mountain Herald" about the June, 1925 Commencement Address at Lincoln Memorial University, by Hon. John H. Kirby, of Houston, Texas.
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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead +3 more
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A Risk Management Approach to Global Pandemics of Infectious Disease and Anti-Microbial Resistance. [PDF]
Trop Med Infect DisSparrow A +6 more
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Spanish stock returns, growth, and inflation, 1900–2020
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies equity returns in the Madrid Stock Exchange and their connections with the macroeconomy from the emergence of a stock market around 1900 to its ‘big bang’ at the turn of the twenty‐first century. Using high‐quality data from primary sources and the methodology of the modern IBEX35 (published since 1987), we constructed an ...
Stefano Battilossi +2 more
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte +2 more
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Defrosting humanism: Losing my ethical worldview in the wake of October 7th and Israel's retaliation
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract This auto‐ethnographic analysis describes the loss of my ethical worldview and my attempts to regain it following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli retaliation. On October 7th, I was unable to feel compassion for the people of Gaza or to take action against the Israeli retaliation, aspects that I used to see as ...
Yael Assor
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The Smallpox Epidemics in America in the 1700s and the Role of the Surgeons: Lessons to be Learned During the Global Outbreak of COVID-19. [PDF]
World J Surg, 2020 Hasselgren PO.
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Socialists and "true" patriotism in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries [PDF]
, 1999 Ward, Paul
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