05124cam a2200829 4500 434078007 TxAuBib 20200702120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101544648 1101544643 B0052REUW0 Amazon 27e4d9f1-fa91-4417-89d7-7a55f4963af3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 592227 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pinker, Steven, 1954- The Better Angels of Our Nature [Libby eBook] : Why Violence Has Declined. Penguin Publishing Group, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5941kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 7494kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. high school graduation gifts. bill gates recommended books. high school graduation gift. college graduation gifts. Evolutionary psychology. Emotional Intelligence. business adventures. Social Psychology. political science. graduation gifts. graduation books. social science. Human Behavior. Enlightenment. anthropology. human nature. Nonviolence. angel gifts. Graduation. philosophy. Bill Gates. psychology. Evolution. Sociology. morality. Altruism. Humanism. violence. culture. society. History. Nature. social. Angel. peace. War. HTML:"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read." —Bill Gates (May, 2017) Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year 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 most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millenia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, programs, gruesom punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned. How has this happened? This groundbreaking book continues Pinker's exploration of the esesnce of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. The key, he explains, is to understand our intrinsic motives—the inner demons that incline us toward violence and the better angels that steer us away—and how changing circumstances have allowed our better angels to prevail. Exploding fatalist myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society. Psychology. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-09-02 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/27E/4D9/F1/BetterAngelsofOurNature9781101544648.epub Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=27E4D9F1-FA91-4417-89D7-7A55F4963AF3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/27E/4D9/F1/BetterAngelsofOurNature9781101544648.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=27E4D9F1-FA91-4417-89D7-7A55F4963AF3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/27E/4D9/F1/BetterAngelsofOurNature9781101544648.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=27E4D9F1-FA91-4417-89D7-7A55F4963AF3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/27E/4D9/F1/BetterAngelsofOurNature9781101544648.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=27E4D9F1-FA91-4417-89D7-7A55F4963AF3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR