Description
| Product ID: | 9781849164252 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Born Liars |
| Subtitle: | Why We Can't Live Without Deceit |
| Authors: | Author: Ian Leslie |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Popular psychology, Popular psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey which makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have. In Born Liars, Ian Leslie takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of ideas that brings the latest news about deception back from the frontiers of psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, and explores the role played by lies - both black and white - in our childhoods, our careers, and our health, as well as in advertising, politics, sport and war. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Joni Mitchell, the author argues that, far from being a bug in the human software, lying is central to who we are; that we cannot understand ourselves without first understanding the dynamics of deceit. |
| Imprint Name: | Quercus Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Quercus Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-06-07 |