格式：

m4b+mobi+epub

时长(Length)：

36hrs

有声电子书名(Audiobook name)：

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Unabridged (m4b+mobi+epub) 36hrs

语言(Language)：

英语(English)

书籍英文简介：

Written by: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release Date:10-04-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

We’ve all had the experience of reading about a bloody war or shocking crime and asking, “What is the world coming to?” But we seldom ask, “How bad was the world in the past?” In this startling new book, the best-selling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species’ existence.

Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: the genocides in the Old Testament and crucifixions in the New; the gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm; the British monarchs who beheaded their relatives and the American founders who dueled with their rivals; the nonchalant treatment in popular culture of wife-beating, child abuse, and the extermination of native peoples. Now the decline in these brutal practices can be quantified.

With the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps, Pinker presents some astonishing numbers. Tribal warfare was nine times as deadly as war and genocide in the 20th century. The murder rate in medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were unexceptionable features of life for millennia, then suddenly were targeted for abolition. Wars between developed countries have vanished, and even in the developing world, wars kill a fraction of the numbers they did a few decades ago. Rape, battering, hate crimes, deadly riots, child abuse, cruelty to animals — all substantially down.How could this have happened, if human nature has not changed? What led people to stop sacrificing children, stabbing each other at the dinner table, or burning cats and disemboweling criminals as forms of popular entertainment? Was it reading novels, cultivating table manners, fearing the police, or turning their energies to making money? Should the nuclear bomb get the Nobel Peace Prize for preventing World War III? Does rock and roll deserve the blame for the doubling of violence in the 1960s — and abortion deserve credit for the reversal in the 1990s?

Not exactly, Pinker argues. The key to explaining the decline of violence is to understand the inner demons that incline us toward violence (such as revenge, sadism, and tribalism) and the better angels that steer us away. Thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, we increasingly control our impulses, empathize with others, bargain rather than plunder, debunk toxic ideologies, and deploy our powers of reason to reduce the temptations of violence.

With the panache and intellectual zeal that have made his earlier books international best sellers and literary classics, Pinker will force you to rethink your deepest beliefs about progress, modernity, and human nature. This gripping book is sure to be among the most debated of the century so far.

书籍中文简介(Translated by 百度翻译)：

作者：Steven Pinker

讲述了：Arthur Morey

长度：36小时43分钟

无删节朗读版

发布日期：10-04-11

发行商：华晨音响

我们都有读过一场血腥战争或骇人听闻的罪行的经历，并问：“世界在走向何方？”但我们很少问：“过去的世界有多糟糕？”“在这个惊人的新的书，最畅销的认知科学家Steven Pinker指出，过去的世界更糟。事实上，我们可能生活在最和平的时代在我们的物种生存。

一个血腥的历史证据一直在我们周围：在新旧约中的种族屠杀和刑罚；莎士比亚和格林血淋淋的伤害；英国君主斩杀他们的亲属和美国的创始人在他们的竞争对手；在打老婆，流行文化不经意的处理虐待儿童，和本地民族的灭绝。现在，这些野蛮做法的下降可以量化。

随着一百多个图表和地图的帮助下，Pinker提出了一些惊人的数字。部落战争是二十世纪战争和种族灭绝的九倍。中世纪欧洲的谋杀率是今天的三十倍多。奴隶制，残暴的惩罚，和轻浮的处决是几千年的生活无懈可击的特点，然后进行有针对性的取消。发达国家之间的战争已经消失，即使在发展中国家，战争也杀死了几十年前的一小部分。强奸、殴打、仇恨犯罪、致命暴乱、虐待儿童、虐待动物——都大大减少了。如果人性没有改变，这怎么可能发生呢？是什么让人们停止牺牲孩子，互相刺伤在饭桌上，或燃烧的猫把罪犯作为大众娱乐形式？是读小说，培养餐桌礼仪，害怕警察，还是把精力转移到赚钱上？核弹应该获得诺贝尔和平奖以防止第三次世界大战吗？摇滚乐应该受到谴责吗？20世纪60年代的暴力事件翻了一番？堕胎应该归功于90年代的逆转吗？

不完全是，Pinker认为。解释暴力下降的关键是了解内心的恶魔，使我们对暴力（如复仇、虐待狂，和部落）和更好的天使，带领我们走。多亏了政府的传播素养，贸易，和世界主义，我们越来越多地控制我们的冲动，同情他人，讨价还价，而不是掠夺，揭穿有毒的意识形态，并部署我们的理由减少暴力的诱惑力。

与花纹和知识的热情，使他的早期作品国际畅销书和文学名著，Pinker会迫使你重新思考你最深的信念的进步，现代性与人性。这本扣人心弦的书肯定是本世纪迄今为止最有争议的书之一。

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