The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Pinker, Steven
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Pinker, Steven

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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Author: Steven Pinker
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Pinker, Steven

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

$35.59
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Pinker, Steven

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

$35.59
Author: Steven Pinker
Format: MP3 CD
Language: English
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"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read.
--Bill Gates (May, 2017)

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year

The author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, programs, gruesome punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned. How has this happened?

This groundbreaking book continues Pinker's exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. The key, he explains, is to understand our intrinsic motives--the inner demons that incline us toward violence and the better angels that steer us away--and how changing circumstances have allowed our better angels to prevail. Exploding fatalist myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society.



Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/12/2016
Binding Type: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781531823979

About the Author
Pinker, Steven: - Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer finalist and the winner of many prizes for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers. He lives in Cambridge.Morey, Arthur: - Arthur Morey has narrated over 100 audiobooks, including That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo, Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving, the five Rabbit novels by John Updike, and The Evolution of God by Robert Wright. He has received seven AudioFile Earphones awards and an Audie nomination for Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid.

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