Innbundet • 2011 • Engelsk

The Better Angels of Our Nature : Why Violence has declined

Name: The Better Angels of Our Nature
SKU: 9780670022953
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ISBN: 9780670022953

Av Steven Pinker

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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...Vis mer

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9780670022953

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2011

Språk

Engelsk

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

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Innbundet

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