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Have you ever met a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the reader inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know, perhaps all too well, but could never understand.

Starting with psychology as a frame of reference, Oakley uses cutting-edge images of the working brain to provide startling support for the idea that "evil" people act the way they do mainly as the result of a dysfunction. In fact, some deceitful, manipulative, and even sadistic behavior appears to be programmed genetically--suggesting that some people really are born to be bad. But there are unexpected fringe benefits to "evil genes." We may not like them--but we literally can't live without them.

Oakley deftly ties together the big picture implications of revolutionary neuroscientific and genetic discoveries, showing the eerily similar behavioral tics of Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Slobodan Milosevic. The dramatic recent scientific findings presented in Evil Genes shed light not only on dictators far afield, but on politics at home, as well as business, religion, and everyday life. In fact, history itself has been shaped by the strange confluence of genes and environment that science is just now beginning to understand.

Oakley links the latest findings of molecular research to a wide array of seemingly unrelated historical and current phenomena, from the harems of the Ottomans and the chummy jokes of "Uncle Joe" Stalin, to the remarkable memory of investor Warren Buffet. Throughout, she never loses sight of the personal cost of evil genes as she unravels the mystery surrounding her sister's enigmatic life--and death.

Evil Genes is a tour-de-force of popular science writing that brilliantly melds scientific research with intriguing family history and puts both a human and scientific face to evil..
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A billion people on the planet are starving while a small percentage of us lavishly consume food and resources The world's population is skyrocketing, forests are being cut down at an astonishing rate, and we fight and kill for oil while there is limitless energy all around us. These realities are the result of an intense fear by the most powerful that drives them to attack and dominate others and hoard resources. On the other side, a true and deep love of the world guides many to devote themselves to taking clear and concerted steps to ensure social equality on the globe, harmony with the environment, and compassion and awareness of our fellow man. These malevolent and benevolent forces are the source of all that we are witnessing today. This book presents a clear roadmap to solving the chaos and imbalance on the planet and moving us toward a broader harmony: the next level in our collective evolution..
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'A visit from this delightfully contentious troupe is always a blessing ' -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Westfield's Men are plagued by a series of practical jokes but, when one of their actors is murdered, the humor turns sour. Lawrence Firethorn, actor-manager, is stalked by a myster-ious lady; the sole copy of The Malevolent Comedy, their new play, is stolen; a leading apprentice is abducted; and there is an attempt on the life of patron Lord Westfield. Someone is trying to destroy the troupe. Nicholas Bracewell, the resourc-eful book holder, has an almighty struggle to save his beloved company from disaster..
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The internationally celebrated author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism, Margaret Atwood is one of Canada's most esteemed literary figures She has won many literary awards, her work has been translated into twenty-two languages, her novel The Handmaid's Tale was adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter, and her most recent book, The Robber Bride, was on the New York Times bestseller list (in cloth and paper) for months. In Strange Things, Atwood turns to the literary imagination of her native land, as she explores the mystique of the Canadian North and its impact on the work of writers such as Robertson Davies, Alice Munroe, and Michael Ondaatje.
Here readers will delight in Atwood's stimulating discussion of stories and storytelling, myths and their recreations, fiction and fact, and the weirdness of nature. In particular, she looks at three legends of the Canadian North. She describes the mystery of the disastrous Franklin expedition in which 135 people disappeared into the uncharted North. She examines the "Grey Owl syndrome" of white writers who turn primitive. And she looks at the terrifying myth of the cannibalistic, ice-hearted Wendigo--the gruesome Canadia snow monster who can spot the ice in your own heart and turn you into a Wendigo. Atwood shows how these myths have fired the literary imagination of her native Canada and have deeply colored essential components of its literature. And in a moving, final chapter, she discusses how a new generation of Canadian women writers have adapted the imagery of the North to explore contemporary themes of gender, the family, and sexuality.
Written with the delightful style and narrative grace which will be immediately familiar to all of Atwood's fans, this superbly crafted and compelling portrait of the mysterious North is at once a fascinating insight into the Canadian imagination, and an exciting new work from an outstanding literary presence..
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The Malevolent Voyage of the Lorenzo Vittorio is a suspenseful novel about corporate espionage, kidnapping, murder and romance aboard an Italian ocean liner sailing out of Sydney, Australia.Ending an abusive marriage, Fredi Cooper and her three children head back to the States the long way around. But instead of a rejuvenating leisurely trip to Southampton, England, a series of incidents leaves them confused and endangered. When Fredi's life is threatened and one of her children kidnapped she begins to fear they might not survive the trip at all..
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