Format:
Online-Ressource (222 p.)
ISBN:
9780691130569
Content:
Why did President John F. Kennedy choose a strategy of confrontation during the Cuban missile crisis even though his secretary of defense stated that the presence of missiles in Cuba made no difference? Why did large numbers of Iraqi troops surrender during the Gulf War even though they had been ordered to fight and were capable of doing so? Why did Hitler declare war on the United States knowing full well the power of that country? War and Human Nature argues that new findings about the way humans are shaped by their inherited biology may help provide answers to such questions. This seminal
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Emotions, Memory, and Decision Making; Chapter Three: Status, Testosterone, and Dominance; Chapter Four: Stress, Distress, and War Termination; Chapter Five: Of Time, Testosterone, and Tyrants; Chapter Six: Where Do We Go from Here?; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400826360
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691130569
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe War and Human Nature
Language:
English
Keywords:
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