The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

Steven Pinker

1026 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
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We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this book, the author, a cognitive scientist shows that the past was much worse; and that we may be living in the most peaceable era in our ...

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