En este libro, dirigido a cualquier persona preocupada por los alarmantes indices de violencia en Mexico, la novelista y psicoanalista Mariana Osorio explora las raices profundas del problema, para a continuacion analizar situaciones comunes de violencia, en las familias y en las escuelas, que pueden afectar de manera especial a los ninos. Con guinos a la literatura, el cine, la clinica y la cultura popular, ofrece a los lectores (padres de familia,...

Updated to include information on twenty-first century military conflicts, recent crime rates, suicide bombings, school shootings, and much more, this account looks at the techniques the military uses to overcome soldiers' reluctance to kill and examines the psychological cost on fighting men and women as well as the detrimental effects on society.

We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...