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2017., Penguin Press Call No: NEW 612.8 S241b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old. The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do ... for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.
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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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By Sager, Riley2017., Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: Fic Sag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong--a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls ... Now, Quincy is doing well ... That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep"
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2021., Viking Call No: Fic Dea Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Abigail Dean's GIRL A, narrated by a successful lawyer living in New York who is better known to the public as Girl A, the one who escaped from a childhood of abuse at the hands of religious fanatic parents, freeing her six siblings -- when her mother dies in prison and leaves her and her siblings the family home, she can't run from her past any longer, to Laura Tisdel at Viking, in a major deal, in a seven-figure deal, at auction, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency on behalf of Juliet Mushens (NA), and to Julia Wisdom at Harper Fiction, with Phoebe Morgan editing, in a major deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2021.
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-- Histoire de violence(2006, p2005)., Adult, Alliance Atlantis Call No: DVD Fic History Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New Line platinum seriesSummary Note: "In this thrill-packed actioner, a small-town diner owner, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen, The Lord of The Rings) finds himself a local hero after he successful takes down two thugs during an attempted robbery. But his sudden celebrity draws unwanted attention from the outside world, including mobsters Carl Fogarty (Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, A Beautiful Mind) and Richie Cusack (Academy Award winner William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman), who insist that Tom is intricately tied to their past. Fogarty begins stalking Tom's wife (Maria Bello, The Cooler) and children, resulting in a bloody standoff in which Tom must protect his family from what is either a case of mistaken identity or a violent past that's finally caught up with him."--Container.
![A history of violence [DVD] (2005). Directed by David Cronenberg.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "A history of violence [DVD] (2005). Directed by David Cronenberg.")
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Ã2017., General, Random House of Canada Call No: 616.85 F172m Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryDaemon Fairless discusses this book on the CBC Radio website. Summary Note: With a rare clarity and fearless honesty, journalist Daemon Fairless tackles the horrors and compulsions of male violence from the perspective of someone who struggles with violent impulses himself. A man, no matter how civilized, is still an animal - and sometimes a dangerous one. Men are responsible for the lion's share of assault, rape, murder and warfare. Conventional wisdom chalks this up to socialization, that men are taught to be violent. And they are. But there's more to it. Violence is a dangerous desire - a set of powerful and inherent emotions we are loath to own up to. There remains a hidden geography to male violence - an inner ecosystem of rage, dominance, blood lust, insecurity, and bravado. This is Daemon Fairless's first-person travelogue through this territory as he seeks to understand the inner lives of violent men. Daemon Fairless has worked as a producer on CBC Radio's As It Happens. He lives in Toronto.
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2018., Hurst & Company Call No: 355.0019 M382w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Why are we willing to die for our countries? Does religion precipitate violence? Do pride, anger and vengeance lead to war? Can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? This ground-breaking book explores how tens of thousands of years of evolution have shaped our brains to fight, and not to fight. Drawing on insights gleaned as a soldier and a scholar, and a biologist, Mike Martin explains how the lives and deaths of our ancestors have shaped our behavior to propel us towards conflict, even as that option makes less and less sense." --Amazon.com.
