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The Better Angels of Our Nature

Hardcover • 2011 • English

The Better Angels of Our Nature : Why Violence has declined

By Steven Pinker

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About the book

We've all had the experience of reading about a bloody war or shocking crime and asking. "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, the bestselling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: the genocides in the Old Testament and crucifixions in the Ne...Show more

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ISBN

9780670022953

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Format

Hardcover

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