The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 832
Publisher: Viking Books
Published: 04 Oct 2011
ISBN 10: 0670022950
ISBN 13: 9780670022953

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For anyone interested in human nature, the material is engrossing, and when the going gets heavy, Pinker knows how to lighten it with ironic comments and a touch of humor ... a supremely important book. To have command of so much research, spread across so many different fields, is a masterly achievement. The New York Times Book Review
.. .an extraordinary range of research ... a masterly effort. The Wall Street Journal
... Better Angels is a monumental achievement. His book should make it much harder for pessimists to cling to their gloomy vision of the future. Whether war is an ancient adaptation or a pernicious cultural infection, we are learning how to overcome it. Slate.com

Author Bio

Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards 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.