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-- Better angels of our nature2011., Viking Call No: 303.609 P655b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2018., General, Viking Call No: 303.44 P655e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The follow-up to Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naive hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. It swims against currents of human nature - tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking - which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. Steven Pinker is a professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
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Ã2017., General, Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Call No: 302.231 S832e Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "What the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves - the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. Fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn't vote for Barack Obama because he's black? Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? The author reveals biases deeply embedded within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our health, both emotional and physical. All of us are touched by big data everyday, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a former Google data scientist."--Provided by publisher.
