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The better angels of our nature: why violence has declined
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Steven Pinker, 2011 New York, Viking $40.00 (hbk), 802 pp. ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3 This thick tome argues that humanity has enjoyed a global decline of violence in every sense: over centuries and mi...
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- Authors
- Maxwell, B.
- Venue
- Journal of Moral Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-03
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 136-138
- ISSN
- 0305-7240 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-3877
- OpenAlex
- W2060446046
- Cited by
- 1,154
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 476.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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