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

Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

832 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
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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 mo...

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