Cruelty : human evil and the human brain

✍ Scribed by Taylor, Kathleen E. (Kathleen Eleanor)

Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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xi, 337 p. : 25 cm

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