About this title: This book 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.
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Description: Fine. 159102580X *THE BOOK IS NEW AND NEVER READ; THERE MAY BE SOME LIGHT SHELFWEAR ON THE COVER, BUT THE INSIDE OF THE BOOK IS IN GREAT CONDITION. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN-13:9781591025801ISBN:159102580X
Description: Very Good. Front corners gently bumped, otherwise fine unused hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. Fresh and clean, tight and square. Prometheus Books, Amherst NY, 2007. 1st printing. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2007-10-31
ISBN-13:9781591025801ISBN:159102580X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781591025801ISBN:159102580X
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Description: New. HARDBACK W/DUST JACKET, Prometheus Books, 2007. GIFT QUALITY! NEW! Very clean, tight, square corners. DJ very clean and square. 1208. read more
Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 459 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781591025801ISBN:159102580X
Description: New. Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her mysterious death, the author takes the reader inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people we all know, perhaps all too well, but could never understand, and puts both a human and scientific face... read more
"At least the author is upfront about her issues with her family dynamic and her older sister. However, comparing her sister's manipulative behavior to Pol Pot, Hitler and other atrocity causing dictators throughout history is disingenuous and bordered on the ridiculous. So your sister stole your mother's boyfriend and used her wiles on men? So? How that compares to the behaviors of men responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people is beyond me."
"So what DO you do if your sister steals your mother's boyfriend (and a host of other things over a lifetime)? If you are Barbara Oakley (and have a brilliant mind, a PhD in bioengineering, and interestingly disparate life experiences(, then you spend years poking through a broad range of research and other literature to try to ascertain an answer. This book is the result of her quest, and it is quite the intriguing read, pulling together threads including Machiavelli, polio, brain imaging, personality (especially borderline and psychopathic), and luminaries from Mao to Milosevic to create both a cautionary tale and a satisfying explanation that does not devolve to the oft-cited "just evil"."
"This had so much potential, but I feel there were many flaws in the book. It's basically a recreated case history of the psychological disorders of various despots. It was interesting to read about different dictators and their personality traits."
"A remarkable compilation of personal experience and research by neurologists, psychologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists, with powerful historical (spanning the ages) examples, this volume argues that the nature side of the nurture-nature argument needs a great deal more weight than it has received. In addition to the straightforward understanding of extraordinarily confusing people -- sociopaths, psychopaths, but especially borderlines -- reading Oakley's book should give a thoughtful reader new ways to relate to these people, but also organizations of all sizes in which they work their dark magic. I recognized in the book a disturbing number of people from my own life.
Very well written, warm,humorous, real, and offering a profoundly new way to view the human being."
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