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The Lucifer Principle
- Author
- Howard Bloom
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 7 July 2015
- Run Time
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. Though this argument is not a new one—it has been brought forth by such great historical figures as St. Paul, Thomas Hobbes, and Raymond Dart—Howard Bloom here takes fresh data from a variety of sources and shapes it into a lens through which listeners can reinterpret the human experience.
Critics Review
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“Unlike anything you’ve ever read before. An act of astonishing intellectual courage.”
Leon Uris, New York Times bestselling author
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“Readers will be mesmerized by the mirror Bloom holds to the human condition and dumbfounded by the fusillade of eclectic data that arrives with the swiftness and intensity of a furious tennis volley. His style is effortless, engaging, witty, and brisk…He draws on a dozen years of research into a jungle of scholarly fields…and meticulously supports every bit of information.”
Washington Post
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“Provocative…explosive…feisty…a string of rhetorical firecrackers that challenge our many forms of self-righteousness.”
Boston Globe
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“Bloom’s tour of science and history is fascinating…A grand, exciting idea.”
Detroit Free Press
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“Howard Bloom’s book is an epoch-making and culture-defining treatise. It is destined to be the Future Shock of our time.”
Bob Guccione Jr., publisher and editor-in-chief of Spin magazine
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“Elegant…the highest quality of brain food…[A] revolutionary new vision of human nature…[a] monumental work…Heady stuff from a wonderful, original thinker…Simply stunning.”
Newark Star-Ledger
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“A philosophical look at the history of our species, which alternated between fascinating and frightening. Reading it was like reading Dean Koontz or Stephen King: I couldn’t put it down…Masterful.”
Rocky Mountain News
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“An ambitious, often provocative study.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Bloom draws on an impressive range of historical, anthropological, and biological research to support his thesis…Thought-provoking.”
Kirkus Reviews
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“The Lucifer Principle is a long step forward to understand human biology. Its original assessment is brilliant; its historical facts are unassailable…An outstanding book.”
Richard Bergland, MD, founder of the Department of Neurology, Sloan-Kettering, and author of The Fabric of the Mind
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“A revolutionary vision of the relationship between psychology and history, The Lucifer Principle will have a profound impact on our concepts of human nature. It is astonishing that a book of such importance could be such a pleasure to read.”
Elizabeth F. Loftus, author of Mindfulness
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“The Lucifer Principle is a tour de force, a brilliant and seminal work.”
Sol Gordon, PhD, founder of the Institute for Family Research and Education
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Details
- Author
- Howard Bloom
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duration
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 July 2015
- ISBN
- 9781504625227
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Scientific research, Humanist philosophy
Synopsis
The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. Though this argument is not a new one—it has been brought forth by such great historical figures as St. Paul, Thomas Hobbes, and Raymond Dart—Howard Bloom here takes fresh data from a variety of sources and shapes it into a lens through which listeners can reinterpret the human experience.
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