THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker (Penguin, 832 pp.)
Noted author and Harvard University psychology professor Steven Pinker argues persuasively in his latest book that we鈥檝e grown less bloodthirsty over the course of recorded history and that the 鈥渂etter angels鈥 of mankind are in ascendancy. (October)