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The Better Angels of Our Nature : Why Violence Has Declined by Pinker, Steven is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of 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 millennia 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, pogroms, gruesome 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 essence 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 tow

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Author

Pinker, Steven

Publisher

Penguin Group US;Viking Adult

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143122012

Category

history

Subjects

Psychology, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (11,991 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13