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| Title: | Evil Genes
: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed & My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend |
| Author: | Barbara A Oakley |
| ISBN: | 159102580X : 9781591025801 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 459 |
| Weight: | .766 Kg. |
| Published: | Prometheus Books - October 2007 |
| List Price: | 19.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Genetics (non-medical): PSYCHOLOGY |
Takes readers inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know all too well, but could never understand. Starting with psychology as a frame of reference, it 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. It is a tour de force of popular science writing that brilliantly melds scientific research with intriguing family history and puts both a human and a scientific face to evil.
Introduction; In Search of Machiavelli; Psychopathy; Evil Genes; Using Medical Imaging to Understand Psychopaths; Insights From My Sister's Love Letters; The Connection Between Machiavellianism and Personality Disorders; Slobdan Milosevic: the Butcher of the Balkans; Lenses, Frames and How Broken Brains Work; The Perfect "Borderpath": Chairman Mao; Evolution and Machiavellianism; Shades of Gray; The Sun Also Shines on the Wicked; Endnotes; Glossary; Index.
