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    Augmentation and the Illnesses of Civilization
    Augmentation and the Illnesses of Civilization
    Augmentation and the Illnesses of Civilization
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    Augmentation and the Illnesses of Civilization

    By Dan Mrejeru

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    This book is the last from a cycle of books where I attempted to analyze when and why appeared the civilization. Back in 2006 with The Real World, I investigated a nonlinear-complex background on which we have built our alleged “world of order.” In 2015 I continued with Solovki Ersatz, where, to my disappointment, I was not ready to

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherURLink Print & Media, LLC
    Release dateJul 5, 2019
    ISBN9781643675985
    Augmentation and the Illnesses of Civilization
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    Dan Mrejeru

    It investigates the means that create our civilization and the means which in response produce illness. I have an MS degree from the University of Bucharest, Romania, in the Geology and Geography Department. Since I immigrated to the US in 1985, I trained myself in several other disciplines as Complex Dynamic Systems, Earth's Geophysics, Climatology and Paleo-Climatology, Neuroscience, Biology, and Genetics. Besides my research activity, I worked for 50 years as an Engineering Geologist, and in the last 32 years, I worked for my Geotechnical Business. I self-published 10 books prior to this one. I am a member of academia.edu since 2015, where I uploaded over 36 papers. I have on my site on academia.edu over 1,300 visitors.

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