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Автор Стивен Пинкер

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface

Chapter 1 - A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Chapter 2 - THE PACIFICATION PROCESS

Chapter 3 - THE CIVILIZING PROCESS

Chapter 4 - THE HUMANITARIAN REVOLUTION

Chapter 5 - THE LONG PEACE

Chapter 6 - THE NEW PEACE

Chapter 7 - THE RIGHTS REVOLUTIONS

Chapter 8 - INNER DEMONS

Chapter 9 - BETTER ANGELS

Chapter 10 - ON ANGELS’ WINGS

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER

ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER

Language Learnability and Language Development

Learnability and Cognition

The Language Instinct

How the Mind Works

Words and Rules

The Blank Slate

The Stuff of Thought

EDITED BY STEVEN PINKER

Visual Cognition

Connections and Symbols (with Jacques Mehler)

Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (with Beth Levin)

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

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Excerpts from “MLF Lullaby,” “Who’s Next?,” and “In Old Mexico” by Tom Lehrer.

Excerpt from “It Depends on What You Pay” by Tom Jones.

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