In Born Liars, Ian Leslie takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of ideas that brings the latest news about deception back from the frontiers of psychology, neuroscience, & philosophy, & explores the role played by lies
- both black & white
- in our childhoods, our careers, & our health, as well as in advertising, politics, sport & war. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud & Joni Mitchell, the author argues that, far from being a bug in the human software, lying is central to who we are; that we cannot understand ourselves without first understanding the dynamics of deceit. After reading Born Liars you'll never think about lies
- or life
- in quite the same way again.