Awards

• Commended for Society of Midland Authors Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2008

Overview

This book takes readers inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know all too well, but could never understand. Starting with psychology as a frame of reference, it 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. It is a tour de force of popular science writing that brilliantly melds scientific research with intriguing family history and puts both a human and a scientific face to evil.

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Remarkable -- and difficult to put down ... a wonderfully readable tapestry of family autobiography, historical biography, and biological psychology. -- Living the Scientific Life, a SEED ScienceBlog December 1, 2008 The book is carefully researched, and its content ranges from genetics, neurology, historical review, forensic personality assessment, evolutionary, psychology, ethics, and free will, and more. Although it occasionally deals with highly technical domains, Evil Genes is written in a conversational and accessible style, and both lay readers and specialists will find it informative and, despite its sometimes grim material, actually entertaining. -- Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 13, Issue 4, January 20, 2009 Sympathetically written, awesomely erudite, with humor and a wide array of the author's personal adventured and achievements to enrich it, this is a book I will reread many times. -- Sacramento Book Review, June 13, 2009

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Barbara Oakley, PhD (Rochester, MI), has been dubbed a female Indiana Jones--her writing combines worldwide adventure with solid research expertise. Among other adventures, she has worked as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea, served as radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and risen from Private to Regular Army Captain in the U.S. Army. Currently an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan, Oakley is a recent vice president of the world's largest bioengineering society and holds a doctorate in the integrative discipline of systems engineering.

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