The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be PDF
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CONTENTS About the Book About the Author Title Page Dedication Epigraph From the Author Prologue Part I: The Perceiver of Pain 1: The Argument 2: The 21,000 3: Here Be Dragons 4: A More Total Darkness 5: Once I Was Blind 6: The Rule of Effective Invisibility 7: The Cognitive Cost of Compassion 8: The Promise 9: The Blank Face of Oblivion Part II: The Ostraciser 1: Take Elpinice and Go 2: The Wounded City 3: Do Not Read This 4: The Circle and the Suffering Part III: The Tamer of Terror 1: The Time Has Come 2: The Broken Circuit 3: The Case of Schwarzenegger’s Farm 4: The Ice Age 5: Facing into the Sun 6: A H N T 7: Locked Out Part IV: The Beholder 1: All They Saw Was My Face 2: Penalising Plainness 3: The Pool of Fire 4: The Water Is Rising Part V: The Aggressor 1: Ordinance 72.058 2: The Golden Box 3: Like a Torch 4: You’ll Like Him 5: How Similar Are You to Small Insects? 6: Determination and Delight 7: Diamonds 8: With Open Eyes 9: 4GW 10: The Burning Country 11: A Man of Business 12: The Vortex 13: 17 Days 14: The Great Desert 15: The Cave of Hands Part VI: The Tribalist 1: The Isle Is Full of Noises 2: The Pier 3: The Dogs 4: Like Peeling Fruit Part VII: The Nurturer 1: Left, Right 2: The Ruthlessness of Rearing 3: Cases Like Mine 4: The Surface of Civilisation 5: The Surrendering 6: The Rose 7: Life’s Longing 8: All the Annas Part VIII: The Romancer 1: The Gift 2: The Lie 3: Carriages and White Horses 4: Something Beyond All That 5: The Fever Part IX: The Rescuer 1: He to Hecuba 2: The Naming of Parts 3: The Cairo 4: The Other Side of the Mountain 5: The Road 6: The Problem of Us 7: All the Elaines 8: A Place of Myth and Legend 9: How It Happens 10: The Choice 11: The Line to Almaty 12: Outliers 13: The Turning 14: A Year in the Life 15: Take the Weather with You Part X: Again Came the Kinsman 1: The Wolves 2: The Storm 3: Silent Flight 4: For 16 Years 5: Always in Epilogue The Sound of the Book Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Illustrations If You Want to Get Involved Copyright About the Book WE WANT TO BELIEVE THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE WOULD NEVER DO. We want to believe that there are others we always would. But how can we be sure? What are our limits? Do we have limits? The answer lies with the Ten Types of Human: the people we become when we are faced with life’s most difficult decisions. But who or what are these Types? Where do they come from? How did they get into our head? The Ten Types of Human is a pioneering examination of human nature. It looks at the best and worst that human beings are capable of, and asks why. It explores the frontiers of the human experience, excavating the forces that shape our thoughts and actions in extreme situations. It begins in a courtroom and journeys across four continents and through the lives of some exceptional people in search of answers. Mixing cutting-edge neuroscience, social psychology and human rights research, The Ten Types of Human is at once a provocation and a map of our hidden selves. It provides a new understanding of who we are – and who we can be. About the Author Dexter Dias QC is a barrister who as Queen’s Counsel has been instructed in some of the biggest cases of recent years involving human rights, murder, terrorism, crimes against humanity and genocide. He has been instrumental in changing the law to better protect young women and girls at risk of FGM and works pro bono internationally with survivors of modern-day slavery, human trafficking and violence against women and girls. He is also a prize-winning scholar of Cambridge University, having been elected to a Foundation Scholarship at Jesus College and winning the Lopez-Rey Prize for the highest Distinction in his research degree at the Faculty of Law’s Institute of Criminology, where he critically analysed the use of state coercive force on vulnerable young people in custody. He has researched and given lectures at Cambridge and held a visiting research residency at Harvard. He has addressed major international conferences and spoken on many national platforms around human rights and social justice issues and violence against women and girls. He chaired and co-wrote the influential Bar Human Rights Committee Report to the Parliamentary Inquiry into FGM and significantly contributed to changing the law to strengthen the national protective mechanism. His research was cited in Parliament and paid tribute to for its critical analysis of the defects in the UK’s rights protections. He has written reports to the United Nations, briefed the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls and advised parliamentarians in both the Commons and Lords. He acts as governor, ambassador and advisor in respect of several human rights NGOs, sits as a part-time judge in the Crown Court (including at the Old Bailey), and is authorised to try Serious Sexual Offence cases. He was finalist in Liberty and JUSTICE’s prestigious Human Rights Lawyer of the Year Award and won the TMG Award for Outstanding Contribution to Advocacy and Justice. @DexterDiasQC For Katie, Fabi and Hermione How does one fashion a book of resistance, a book of truth in an empire of falsehood? Is it possible for freedom and independence to arise in new ways under new conditions? Philip K. Dick
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