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The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world. At the end of the 17th century...

The Age of Empathy - Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society written by Frans De Waal performed by Alan Sklar on MP3 CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN: 9781400163557
Genre - Main: Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific: Popular Science
Duration: 600 mins
Length: Unabridged
Author: Frans De Waal
Performer 1: Alan Sklar

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Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and "survival of the fittest," but, in fact, humans are equally hard-wired for empathy.

Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behavior, and neuroscience, Frans de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals-highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving-just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins.

This revelation has profound implications for everything from politics to office culture.

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