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

People often ask me what is the best book I've read in the last year. When Fareed Zakaria mentioned Harvard professor Steven Pinker, he was making reference to Pinker's newest book, a 700 page behemoth entitled The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined eBook: Steven Pinker: Amazon.es: Tienda Kindle. Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. See or hear the brilliant Steven Pinker explain his masterpiece, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, as he presents his Long Now Foundation SALT talk in San Francisco. I can't stop telling people about this amazing landmark study of societal progress concerning violent behavior! The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker. Two weeks ago The Boston Globe ran my review of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. We have data, comprehensively compiled by the Harvard University social scientist Steven Pinker in his new book entitled The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Viking, 2011). Cut to the Chase: This is somewhat of a departure for Pinker, whose earlier works have focused more on language, learning, and neurobiology. And its once thriving comments section is dry, not long ago a reader responded to something I wrote with a warm recommendation that I read Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined . The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Many people have asked me how I became involved in the analysis of violence. It should not be a mystery: violence is a natural concern for anyone who studies human nature. Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of our Nature argues that violence has been declining over the last several centuries, and continues to decline, even though the common wisdom seems to say the opposite. I first became interested in this book through a TED talk Pinker gave on the same subject.