Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain (signed copy)

Taylor, Kathleen

ISBN 10: 0199552622 / ISBN 13: 9780199552627

Published by Oxford University Press, 2009

About this Item

1st edition, 2009. Signed by the author. Original pictorial dustjacket near fine. Blue cloth gilt very clean. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. 337 pages. Uncommon in the UK.

Seller Inventory # ABE-17109910208

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain (signed copy)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199552622
• ISBN 13: 9780199552627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Drawing on history, politics, philosophy, psychology, and especially neuroscience, she sets cruelty in the context of human evolution and our current understanding of brain function

About the Author

Kathleen Taylor studied physiology and philosophy at Oxford University. She went on to do a research MSc at Stirling University, working on brain chemistry, before returning to Oxford to do a DPhil in neuroscience. She has written on a range of topics, from consciousness to the psychology of wartime atrocities. In 2002 she won two writing competitions, one for science writing and one for an essay in the humanities/social sciences. Her first book, Brainwashing: the science of thought control, was published in 2004.