Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the reader inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know, perhaps all too well, but could never understand. Starting with psychology as a frame of reference, Oakley uses cutting-edge images of the working brain to provide startling support for the idea that "evil" people act the way they do mainly as the result of a dysfunction. In fact, some deceitful, manipulative, and even...
Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her ...
Konnen Menschen biologisch zum Bosen veranlagt sein? Ausgehend von verstorenden Erfahrungen in der eigenen Familie deckt die Autorin Barbara Oakley auf, dass ubel wollende Menschen oft aufgrund von korperlichen oder psychischen Fehlfunktionen so handeln. Sie setzt aktuelle psychologische, neurowissenschaftliche, verhaltensbiologische und genetische Entdeckungen in Beziehung zu den Charakteren vieler historischer Personen (allen voran Mao, Stalin, Hitler und Milosevic) und leitet daraus ein faszinierendes Bild vom Wirken des Bosen in der Politik, im Geschafts- und Sozialleben, in der...
Konnen Menschen biologisch zum Bosen veranlagt sein? Ausgehend von verstorenden Erfahrungen in der eigenen Familie deckt die Autorin Barbara Oakley...
Carole Alden, a brilliant, yet eccentric mother of five, had a deep and abiding need to help society's outcasts. But Carole's desire to help others extended beyond her meagre resources, even beyond the children she insisted she loved, yet sometimes neglected.
Carole Alden, a brilliant, yet eccentric mother of five, had a deep and abiding need to help society's outcasts. But Carole's desire to help others ex...
Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently--much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively "green"--and sometimes contradictory--practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business executives, policy makers, and the...
Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently--much as water is edged and shaped b...
