Synopses & Reviews
For many decades, science has attempted to make sense of violence. To determine why it occurs and who may be more predisposed to causing others harm. The answers have not come easily. Even raising the questions has created social unease and even provoked hostilities.
To probe the nature of violence has required forays into deep controversy, particularly, the mind-brain debate and the age-old argument about how genetic heritage contributes to human behavior in distinction to how much culture makes its mark. These issues are often colored by religious and political agendas. Add to the mix a dash of scientific insensitivity, bravado, ineptitude or racism and you end up with a recipe for social conflict.
In "The Breaking Point", Nicholas Regush provides the reader with a thought-provoking and controversial new book in which he explores this complex issue and attempts to dispel the myths surrounding violent behavior in humankind. Regush offers a new insight that makes for a compelling read and, sometimes, a disturbing look at ourselves. He maintains that society must recognize the power of the human brain. If we fad to appreciate how malleable the brain is, and how vulnerable its neural and chemical structures are to damage and alteration, this will have serious social consequences. However, such understanding would lead us to realize that anyone can become violent as a consequence of the interplay of certain biological and environmental conditions.
"The Breaking Point" will undoubtedly become the most talked about book on the nature of violence and will be acknowledged as an authoritative, yet accessible new work on the subject.
Synopsis
The Breaking Point offers a new insight that makes for a compelling read and, sometimes a disturbing look at ourselves. It is an examination of the nature of violence and will be acknowledged as an auathorative new work on the subject.