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A never-before-written exposé on catching child predators, from the creator of the powerful NBC Dateline series
Over 40,000,000 Americans have seen Dateline NBC's ongoing “To Catch a Predator” series, with an average of 11 million viewers per episode. So far, the Dateline series has led to the arrest of 183 men and shown that child predators can be anyone—even those most trusted in the community—including rabbis, doctors, and teachers.
In his book To Catch a Predator, Chris Hansen, the creator and on-air correspondent for Dateline's most successful series, looks deeper into the world of child predators. The book expands beyond the Dateline series to include commentary from psychological and criminal experts about the origins and methods of child predators, and includes substantive advice for both parents and children on how to protect kids on the Internet. Hansen also looks at the current methods for treating child predators and interviews several of the men seen on the Dateline show to follow up on their lives since being arrested. To Catch a Predator presents a strong analysis of what some feel is a child predator epidemic and a startling look at the shortcomings of our systems and society.
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TO CATCH A PREDATOR.......2007-08-25
I think every person that has a child in their home should read this book. I also think children over 14 years of age should read this book.
Get the Book!!!!!!!!.......2007-08-04
If you have the internet,if you have kids (THIS IS A MUST READ FOR PARENTS!), if you love kids, if you work around kids, if you hate the actions of pedophiles that become sexual predators and feel they should be incarated unitl Jesus comes back, or you think hey should get treatment and that is the best solution, get the freakin book!
It covers all of these issues and all of the operations and catching these sexual predatory dirtbags. ( Ofcourse I'm a "locker upper!")It is a great read, Chris Hansen is well spoken on all issues, and just does a great job with this one! Its full of information and sometimes will make you say "What" and sometimes "HMMMMM." It is probably the best beginners book for reading on the issue of online predators. There are more explicit and problably more scientific ones but this should be on every internet crimes against children bookshelf. GET THE BOOK!!!
Every parents should read this book!.......2007-06-05
This book is written by the host of the popular NBC Dateline series, To Catch a Predator. If you are a parent, you should read this book.
Read this Book..........2007-06-03
if you have children and a computer.
More than just a rundown of the TO CATCH A PREDATOR Dateline NBC series (although it does do that), this book also contains heartbreaking stories of children who have been exploited -- and in some cases murdered -- by predators they met on the Internet.
Chris Hansen does a great job of illustrating the fact that the computer and the Internet, as a whole, are useful tools that even younger children can take advantage of. But his tips and hints for protecting your children from online predators are something that EVERY parent needs to read -- and then share with their kids.
While I tried to avoid scaring my two children (ages 10 and 6), I have sat them down and discussed the dangers that can be found on the Internet. Just as predators in real life don't always look like what they are, I think my kids now understand that people they could meet online aren't necessarily who they claim to be, either.
I highly recommend all parents, especially those of teens and pre-teens, who have a computer pick up a copy of TO CATCH A PREDATOR. You'll be amazed, frightened, and instilled with a sense of urgency when it comes to the protection of your kids.
Catch a Predator.......2007-05-10
I enjoyed the book, it expands on the television series and gives some insight into protecting your children. It is a great tool for anyone that has children and gives some great tips on using the internet and also what to look for if you have a child that uses the internet.
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A Piece That Has What Others Don't........2007-09-02
Highly regarded as one of the finest pieces of business investigative journalism written, Connie Bruck's groundbreaking work on the subject of junk bonds and corporate financing was written during a time when the business press universally admired Drexel Burnham for their ability to turn junk into gold.
You will find this book quite entertaining and comprehensible. A smooth read not filled with too much industry jargon, its nomenclature friendly enough even for the beginner. It highlights the bright sides as well as the dark sides of the critically acclaimed Junk-bond king Michael Milken and allows each of us to have his or her own view on Milken and Drexel Burnham's underlying philosophy.
Although the book does lean heavily towards Milken having a me first attitude, it does manage to pin down a few important business lessons underscored by him that cannot be overlooked. You will not waste any time reading this piece. You will definitely be on the winning side by reading this book.
This book will definitely generate scores of topics to discuss and debate about the philosophies of American business that dominated Wall Street in the 1980s. This future classic highlights many corporate raiders that are still vehemently visible today. Just to name a few: players like Carl Icahn, Nelson Peltz, Ron Perelman, T. Boone Pickens and a host of others.
A definite must read for those interested in banking, financial history, and especially for business students.
Amazing account of the rise of Drexel.......2007-04-11
Connie Bruck tells the tale of the rise of Drexel Burnham, Michael Milken, and the modern day junk bond market, from the early beginning all the way up to the end.
The Predators Ball is a great bit of investigative writing. The dramatic events really keep you hooked, although at some points the level of detail requires hunkering down for the long haul. Overall, recommended for any Street junkie or anyone interested in Drexel Burnham and Michael Milken.
Good background information on finance in the 80s.......2007-02-25
This book is a great reference point to many of the activities that occurred in the 1980s and how those events impact Wall Street and the financial markets today. While not as well written as other books in the genre, it makes an emphasis of using facts as opposed to circumstantial evidence presented as facts (which many similar books such as "Den of Thieves" and "Barbarians at the Gate" use) and that makes this book a cut above the rest.
One sided, but a good read.......2007-01-10
I gave the book 4 stars simply for the topic, it reads reasonably well, and it appears that the author has done a good amount of research, covering much of Milken's and Drexel's rise and fall. The book, however, is one sided (against Milken). The last few chapters are blatantly so and become almost unbearable in there tone.
Given the realization of how absolutely astonishing it is that one man influenced, almost singlehandedly, a financial era, I would recommend reading as much on the topic as possible. This would include the Predators Ball.
Good for what it sets out to do but really leaves a lot out.......2006-12-21
This is a decent overview of the malfeasance that was perpetuated by Drexel Burnham and Michael Milken. It however pails in comparison to the account that James Stewart presents in Den of Thieves. If you want to focus on the big event during one year this is a decent way to do it but you are really missing out on a much better account.
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Think your child is safe surfing the Web? Think again, says R. Stephanie Good in this chilling expose and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators. Posing as a young girl, Stephanie has helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000 executives, even an executive from a children's cable television channel. Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled her into this harrowing career and takes readers on the hunt.
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Exposed.......2007-09-30
This book was very informative and eye opening. I recommend it for anyone with a teenager that wants to know what to look for on the internet.
Truth in Print....Get the book!.......2007-08-21
Hey Folks,
Mrs.Good takes you through her experiences with the sexual predators that she enounters in her great work as a civilian UC helping the FBI put these folks where they belong...in a cage away from our kids! This book discusses the many facets of this section of law enforcement and even brings you into a trial and shows you the sleazy attempt by a defense lawyer to get the predator from having to do the time for his, or her, crime. This is a great book to companinion "To catch a Predator" by Chris Hasen. These two books are must reads for anyone interested in this subject. God Bless you all, Doneaux.
I commend R. Stephanie Good for this book.......2007-05-21
I have read this book, and found it very interesting! Repetitive it was NOT. There are ALOT of sick pediphiles out there, and this lets them know we have their number! This woman works at getting them off the internet, and it doesn't take over night, it's alot of making sure she has who she thinks she has. I think R. Stephanie Good is a "PLUS" to life, if only more people were more like her this world would be a better place.
Reality.......2007-05-15
The book exposes the real world we live in and the dangers it poses. The author does an excellent job of telling the stories and not getting into too much detail. We need more people willing to risk their own personal life to help others.
great book.......2007-04-04
Wow...This book really lets you right into the middle of these frighteningly perverted cases. The Dateline series only scratches the surface. Before reading this book, you can't even imagine the things these grown men will do and say to get what they want. Thank God for people like Stephanie Good and the FBI agents she worked with who protect our children from these horrors. Hopefully this book will raise the awareness of this problem and make parents more aware of the dangers their children face online.
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Predator
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Investigating the disappearance of two sisters in Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta follows clues that twist and turn, leading her into the psychopathic depths of a jailed serial killer's mind.
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowboundBoston, one as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team-Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli-to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now. Predator is proof once again that Patricia Cornwell has few peers with her extraordinary ability to entertain and enthrall.
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Disappointed.......2007-10-04
If I hadnt been on an eight hour plane ride I wouldnt have read past the first chapter of this very tiresome series. The first few of the Cornwell books were page turners, and I miss staying up until the wee hours of the morning dying to finish them. I was hoping that Predator would rekindle my love for this series, but it did just the opposite. It seems like Ms. Cornwell is just cranking out material without really caring what happens to the characters that she has created.
The text in Predator didnt have a flow to it. It was choppy, and sometimes even confusing. It contained extraneous information and secondary characters that are not interesting. I would really like to read one of these books where the mystery was the storyline, and not how these three characters are again being betrayed by the people they trusted. There also appear to be huge chunks of text missing that would have allowed the story line to actually make sense.
I am glad that I had picked this up used and didnt pay full price; it will be the last Patricia Cornwell book I read.
disappointed.......2007-09-19
I think Patricia is losing her edge. This just wasn't as good as her earlier books.
Really awful.......2007-09-11
This is one of the worst books I have read in a long time. Too bad, because the author is obviously capable of better. Perhaps her problem is trying to write in the third person, which she is not good at. Or worse, trying to write in the present tense, which very few authors can pull off. At any rate, the characters are wooden, the plot convoluted and not always consistent, and nothing catches or holds your interest. I'm only sorry I can't go lower than one star in the rating!
Can never go home again..........2007-09-02
It has been a number of years since I read a Kay Scarpetta novel. When I saw Predator on sale and that it was another Scarpetta story I was thrilled. Now I know why the hard cover was on sale for $5.00. I am so confused by the plot(s)and repelled by the descriptions of the violent acts I am not sure if I will read the rest of the book (75 pages to go). I hope Cornwell will be able to go home again to the Kay Scarpetta and friends that I use to know.
Last Precinct is the Last good novel.......2007-08-24
Kay Scarpetta's last good adventure was "The Last Precinct".
Bringing Benton back........... BIG MISTAKE, reminded me of how they brought back Bobby on "Dallas".
Worse, when it was written in first person, She WAS the character.
The whole series has ground to a halt. From Body Farm to Last Precinct, it's a GREAT Series........ since then, a waste of time
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Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children
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A world-renowned expert provides a psychological profile of serial sex offenders-how they think, how they deceive their victims, and how they elude the law.
What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled, Salter dispels the myths about sexual predators and gives us the tools to protect our families and ourselves.
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Review.......2007-09-24
This book is a must for all parents and those who work in the department of keeping kids safe from predators. Once I started reading this book it was extremely hard for me to put it down.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND! *****.......2007-08-14
This is the best book I have read on the subject. Incredibly informative and written for the lay person. Professionals in the field would also benefit from reading it. The Gift of Fear by Gavin deBecker is an excellent companion book.The Gift of Fear I also highly recommend Anna Salter's novels. They are also incredibly informative. Truth Catcher, White Lies, Prison Blues, Shiny Water, and Fault Lines
"Predators" is a must read for everyone.......2007-04-16
Once I began reading this book Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children I could not put it down. The insight Anna Salter provided regarding all types of predators in our society was fascinating and educational, even to a seasoned criminal investigator with experience working with sex offenders and other serious felons. I would recommend this book to EVERY PARENT, and anyone else who wants to protect themselves from the criminals among us. Ms. Salter obviously put a whole career into this book. I will be giving this book to all my friends and family so they can benefit from it the way I feel I have.
Very helpful for me.......2007-01-19
I learned quite a bit from this book. I would say Anna Salter's book, along with Jake Goldenflame's book, are the two that have been the most insightful for me. Like many other reviewers have pointed out, this book covers a tough subject and not one that many people like to face. This book is graphic at times and will be a hard read for certain people. Unlike some reviewers, I did not feel Salter had a personal vendetta against Levine, but she certainly did not agree with Levine, which is perfectly fine because that is her opinion. I also did not agree with some that the book is sensationalized. This is a horrific subject and the Internet has provided a new venue for predators and also has allowed them to organize support for one another and work as teams to attack targets. These are not things covered in Salters book, but they show that the threat is very real whether you want to acknowledge the severity of it or not.
Excellent book on the topic. Read it, you'll be glad you did!.......2006-11-17
While this isn't a "nice" topic the book is very informative and enlightening, I found the chapter on psychopaths particularly interesting as well as the many techniques prisoners and other criminals use to gain trust among staff members while IN PRISON! WE HAVE TO EDUCATE OURSELVES if we want to stay safe, reading this book gives you the opportunity to stay one step ahead, to think twice before you say "yes" to helping a stranger who may be dangerous or letting your child go to an overnight camping trip.
Read "the gift of fear" as well by Dr. Gavin De Becker, you won't regret it, I assure you.
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Demonstrates that the earliest humans evolved not as hunters but as prey species, based on evidence from fossil and living primates
Although "Man the Hunter" is a popular description of our ancestry, the central importance of hunting is firmly fixed only in the archeological record of relatively recent human history. Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved not as hunters but as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds of prey. Eyewitness accounts, data collected by the authors, and the published reports of naturalists establish the astonishing extent to which living monkeys, lemurs, apes, and even humans fall victim to a wide variety of predators, some of which even specialize in the consumption of primates. Additionally, the fossil record demonstrates that primates have been prey for millions of years, a fact that necessarily shaped the evolution of our earliest ancestors in body and behavior. Skillfully combining information from a number of lines of evidence, Man the Hunted casts an entirely new light on the natural history of primates and the evolution of fossil and modern humans.
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A New Perspective.......2006-07-19
As with any new or unique perspective on the evolution of humanity, "Man the Hunted" has drawn both praise and damnation. Being informed that your ancestors were little more than snacks for large carnivores may bring some human-centric reviewers down a peg or two and also induce some nasty penmanship.
I like my natural history gritty. How about pp 140 " the crowned hawk-eagle not only has the power and the momentum, the surprise and the speed, but those great talons are used with such exactitude that the heart of the prey is the target ... In one juvenile monkey the heart was triple-pierced from a single deathblow; the talon went in one side of the heart, came out the other side, and- achievable only because of the camber of the eagle's talon- curved back and reentered the heart once again."
This is an engaging and highly readable book, and its premise stands the test. Let's face it, the famous "Taung baby" discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart was recently proven to have been the prey of a large eagle; there are the typical "can opener" marks of eagle talons on Taung's skull. The only disagreement I would have with the authors is the extent of meat eating and its time interval in our history. Hart and Sussman maintain that "top predator" status was only recently attained by humans; whereas in my opinion brain expansion = meat. The human fossil record is one of exponential brain expansion, and something must have driven that expansion; meat and society.
The authors themselves are extremely fair in their treatment of others who have been critical of their work, and also point out where their own views diverge on aspects of human evolution. There is no apparent political agenda being pushed and the quotes from Robert Ardrey and E. Tylor are placed in a fair and relevant context. There are dozens of attributions and a full bibliography, in response to another review.
Gross incompetence and dishonesty.......2006-03-06
I see from the reviews here that this book has managed to convince people so far. I hope that if I point out their methods here others will be able to see it for what it really is, a political viewpoint that they have dressed up with flim flam and lies.
In my opinion Sussman and Hart are knowingly dishonest and just make stuff up. There is a chance that they are also amazingly incompetent and lacking in any basic knowledge of the topic, but it can be hard to distinguish this from their transparent attempts to cleverly distort reality and the positions of others. At the very least, their motive to even write this book is based on their failure to understand some very basic things about evolution and genetics, and how nature via nurture results in behavior.
Given that Sussman claims to be a primatologist and that he claims to be working on preservation of endangered species in various parts of the world, we might, for example, expect something a bit beyond the following on the topic of the coevolution of predators and prey, "In other words, if prey evolve a new way to elude predators, predators evolve in the direction of overcoming the new strategy. Any major destabilization in the balance of predators and prey comes
about because the prey have evolved some new way to elude predation; the predator then has to counteradapt or give up eating the newly elusive prey (Tylor, E. Primitive Culture, 1871)." (pg. 40)
No, I did not mistype that, they use a book from 1871! By a man that specialized in the topic of primitive religions and who held profoundly racist views that Africans were in the middle between apes and white men. How can this be the best possible source on the topic of the coevolution of predator and prey? Either they are amazingly ignorant, or they set out to find a source that did not contradict their carefully constructed and entirely wrong notions. They count on the reader never looking up what that little number "18" references. Do any of you think that this racist expert in religions that wrote back in 1871 is likely the last word on the coevolution of prey and predators? So ask yourself then, why would they use him? Because their argument fails if they try to use any modern experts in the topic. Using this source is essentially a lie then.
Throughout they make use of devious methods of argumentation as they seeks to pull whatever comes to hand over the reader's eyes. In discussing hunting they admit that hunting is "common" (pg. 23) behavior in primates. This is a huge problem for someone arguing that human behavior and evolution is unrelated to hunting. But then they launch the effort to whitewash this, skipping right along and changing the subject in a way they hope you do not notice.
Fond of using the work of non-scientists from decades ago as whipping posts, here they choose Robert Ardrey, who with typical journalistic license went overboard on his assertions back thirty some years ago. Even still they twist vigorously at what Ardrey wrote. Where Ardrey says that our ancestors were "continuosly dependant on killing to survive" Sussman claims to refute by arguing against a view that "hunting could have been the main food procurement venture for early hominids." This is not what Ardrey asserted at all. Obviously, a food source need not be the main one for it to be critical for survival. Even five or ten percent of a diet can easily make the difference between health and death over a long period of time. Given seasonal changes in plant derived food sources it is also probable that hunting would be a more critical source periodically than it was on average.
It is a basic assumption of biology and evolutionary theory that animals engage in behaviors which increase their fitness, that these behaviors exist because they increased the numbers of descendants of the individuals that had them relative to those that did not and were therefore passed on, they were selected for. Therefore we work with the assumption that if a behavior is common to a whole order, the primates, as they admit hunting is, then it must be important to survival and fitness. Which should just end the debate unless they have some spectacular evidence somehow that hunting is just a random behavior that happens to be universal in primates and every single human culture. Which would make it the only known example and a huge problem for the theory of evolution to explain. They do not offer any such evidence, instead they boldly assert that they have conclusive proof against the theory of "Man the Hunter," which is that our ancestors two million years ago had teeth that were not the teeth of a carnivore. Of course, no one ever said they were. Not Ardrey or anyone else. But they are clearly that of an omnivore, which includes hunting, and which they neglect to mention. This also has to be seen as simply a lie. An effort to convince you of what is not true and to disguise what is true from your view, and to use the reader's lack of knowledge of the topic to do so.
In fact I doubt the word omnivore is in this book anywhere, they live in a world where species either peacefully chew grass until they are eaten, or they eat only meat all the time.
They also seem to avoid the obvious fact that even herbivores can compete over territory and mating with other herbivores in violent conflicts; perhaps they would see two rams butting heads as peacefull? Yet they are undeniably prey animals and do not hunt. So even if we gave them their founding assertions, what they assert follows from them obviously does not.
It is remarkable too that Sussman has such a unique opinion of what others believe. Perhaps this is not surprising given how behind the times his sources are, but still one is puzzled to read, for example, that "Conventional wisdom would picture predators formulaically thinning the size of their prey populations-mountain lions eating just the right number of deer to keep the deer, in turn, from overpopulating." (pg. 39) Perhaps this was the conventional wisdom back in 1871, but as I am not an expert in the history of science I have no idea.
Any vague knowledge of evolution would tell one that each predator looks out for themselves, there is no consideration of the health of the group they prey on. Ideas similar to this one, that individuals in groups would limit the number of their offspring to the ideal number the environment could support, were conclusively dismissed over forty years ago. That hardly makes them or their cousins, as these look to be,"conventional wisdom." Again, this can only be extreme ignorance of the topic or intentional dishonesty.
This was a funny one though, "Should we then not worry that too many chimpanzees might be obliterated by their natural predators? Absolutely not. Any substantive and long-term drop in numbers of prey will arise from a lack of resources." Huh. So all those flightless birds just happened to lack resources at the same time that cats and rats were introduced to their island homes? I suppose that one can argue these were not their natural predators, but species have invaded new habitats millions of times naturally. One gets a picture from this book of a world where species are in some magical stasis, one
would be very shocked to learn that 99% of all species that have
ever existed are now extinct.
Of course the larger assertions are just hilarious, and their books are cooked until they are pure carbon. The idea is that if we can show that our ancestors several million years ago did not hunt, and that instead they were hunted, then somehow magically it follows that human nature is basically good and peacefull and all evil is caused by evil cultures. Which is a
hilarious leap out into mid air, logically. And it means that they fully subscribe to genetic determinism for this purpose. But then they also want to say that even if we did hunt that would not mean we were by nature killers, since that would be genetic determinism; the same thing that they like so much when they make their first argument but which they are adamantly opposed to if it might result in what their politics disagree with.
In fact on page 211 they blatantly admit that their whole book is pointless ["And furthermore, research seems to indicate that the neurophysiology of aggression between species is quite different from the spontaneous violence linked to intraspecific aggression by humans (that is, murder)."], and then they just keep on going anyway. If there is no link in the human mind between murder and hunting, which of course there is not and the whole argument is just absurdly silly from the start, then how does their assertion that we were not hunters two million years ago have any particular import? The lack of citation here is also a fairly common feature of the book, and one that is highly suspect. Who did the research and how can I find it? Is it from 1871?
And of course the whole idea that a species can be characterized by looking at how it's distant ancestors lived is absurd if one does not also look at how it lives now. Sussman and Hart avoid the knowledge that all human societies ever encountered hunt. How does an anthropologist who is a former editor of a major journal avoid this knowledge? It must be simple dishonesty.
We might just as well have a book titled "Whales, the Land
Dwellers." Sure, their distant ancestors lived on land, but
obviously no whales do now. What they ate or were eaten by seems to be a question that few would care the answer to, and I see no reason for more to care what our very distant ancestors ate or were eaten by.
Sure, evolutionary psychology recognizes that there can be behaviors left over from our ancestors. Perhaps we could speculate, for example, that our fondness for petting animals is left over from our ancient bonding by grooming behavior. But given that it is very very likely our ancestors hunted, since they had the teeth for it, it is common (as the authors admit) in primates, and all human societies ever found hunt then I think we need to just admit that we are evolved as hunters. Then we can also get past all these bizarre negative ideas about it too. It does not mean we are violent or aggressive or demonic or emotionless killers. It means we were hungry.
Let me also mention that evolutionary psychology is well aware that humans have adaptations to avoid predators. That extreme fear of snakes is common in humans is frequently given as an example of evolved behaviors, behaviors that have no environmental cues and therefore can be seen as "hardwired." Infants and captive chimps that never had seen snakes before have exhibited this fear, so it does seem that our brains are born with this information and response. But I fail to see how being eaten by a predator changes the character of a person from violent to peaceful. Hitler was a vegetarian, if he had also been eaten by a bear would that indicate that he was by nature peaceful? That his descendants were peaceful? The logic of their argument simply does not exist.
Ian Tattersall contributes a forward in which he heaps scorn on
evolution (and he teaches courses with evolution in the title),
biology, genetics, the lot, and seems to hint that they should be replaced by some vague notions of "emergent events" and also
the "history" of the species. He states, "Clearly the unprecedented qualities of our species are the result of an emergent event, and there is indeed something truly different about the way we Homo Sapiens behave that seems to distinguish us from even our closest ancestors. And as a result, it is evident that we cannot attribute the ways in which we behave directly to our genes or even, more indirectly, to our history, as a bee or an angel fish might much more plausibly do."
I fail to see how anything in the second sentence follows as a
result of anything in the first, but these people specialize in
grand leaps into the void. I also fail to understand the difference between a species history and it's genetic history, he seems to suggest by this some new means of transmitting inherited traits that is less "direct" than genetic.
There are people who connect various of the following; hunting and murder, murder and war, and hunting and war. Some of these people exist in the area of evolutionary psychology (for example, David Buss) a field the authors oppose. But all of these connections are wrong, and the authors know that, as they say on page 211. The ideas are simply illogical and poorly thought through. It would be possible for a group to hunt and not make war, or make war and not hunt. The fact is that all human groups do make war except for extremely isolated or nomadic ones. The fact is that all human groups hunt. Lacking very strong counter evidence we must start with the assumption that these behaviors have genetic components which contribute to their universality. This does not mean that we cannot choose other behaviors. I am a longtime vegetarian myself. But it does mean that we need to know who we are before we can truly control these choices. We need to stand up and admit that we were born with a predisposition to make war, and then understand what the psychology of that is in our minds so that we can avoid falling into the evolved paterns. Denial will not lead to peace for humans any more than it leads to sobriety for drunks. If you want to see where that path leads, you can start here - http://theroadtopeace.blogspot.com/
I believe it is time to engage in some identity correction. These people are effectively secular creationists. Anti-science and evolution, using many of the same tactics including outright lies, all in support of their decidedly dogmatic beliefs. They are the secular creationists. Denial of the theory of evolution or of human nature will not lead to peace. In fact an unshakeable belief in one's own peacefullnes is a part of what lets us be lead to war so readily, we always think that we are truly acting in self defense. Even the Germans in WWII thought that. It is not determinism to say that we have genes that predispose us to certain behaviors, it is the first step to being able to change those behaviors.
The authors believe that their position must be true because they believe if it is then humans are basically good and peaceful, and they feel themselves to be these. Therefore they try to make this case despite all the evidence and the need to lie to the reader and to themselves. They feel that admitting that humans evolved adaptations for hunting and war would mean that there was no hope. On the contrary. Admitting these truths is our only hope for peace.
pointless exercise.......2006-02-02
After 177 pages of descriptions of predators devouring prey, the author finally reveals that she has no way to connect her thesis (that hominid development was heavily influenced by predation) with what little is actually known about hominids - that they were fully bipedal before there was any great increase in cranial capacity. She refers to our evolution as a "random serendipitous route" and asserts that "we can simply accept that it was a combination of many factors that likely made bipedal locomation advantageous..."
The primary redeeming factor in an otherwise pointless exercise is the chapter "debunking 'man the hunter,'" a long overdue admission by mainstream academics that the savannah theory doesn't square with the fossil record.
Enjoyable, informative view of early man as prey.......2005-12-06
Every few years a new theory of human evolution emerges and its authors gleefully bash all those who came before. This is highly entertaining for the general reader and often very convincing too. In this case physical anthropologist Sussman and his former graduate student, wildlife biologist Hart counter the once vaunted and lately battered "man the hunter" scenario with its opposite: man as prey.
Nobody doubts that early hominids were prey to animals like saber tooth tigers, crocodiles, bears, hyenas and many more. But after reading the first half of "Man the Hunted," you will wonder how those poor hominids ever survived long enough to develop the brains needed to defend themselves and become us. The authors amass lots of fossil data and modern studies of predation to show that primates (including humans) were and still are, prey.
Reading this impressive catalog of dangers, you can't help but think of the defensive abilities other primates have that we lack - chimps are powerfully muscled and agile in trees, monkeys have long useful tails to swing swiftly through forest or jungle, gorillas are large and formidable, and all of them are more threatening as biters.
Hominids, however, with brains not much larger than chimps, had a puny physique (although more powerful than homo sapiens became) no claws or sharp teeth, and they couldn't run very fast on their two legs or swing as easily into the trees. No defenses at all, it appears, except for vigilance and the protection of the group. How did we ever survive?
The authors tackle this question in the second half of the book, approaching evolution from a defensive posture. Bipedalism, for instance. Numerous "models" have been posited to explain why we walk around upright - to free our arms for carrying, to allow scanning of terrain, to make us more energy efficient in terms of foraging for food and heat dissipation, to look larger and more robust to predators and mates. The authors reject all of these as primary causes, but incorporate each as an advantage to a creature already "preadapted," as all primates are, for bipedalism.
First, we came down from the trees, because, living at the edge of the forest, many ground plants were available. Then, "it made life much SAFER to be bipedal." "Bipedalism is only advantageous if you leave the trees and descend to the ground for the majority of your activities, and if you do it BEFORE you have evolved enormous torsos and arms." At this point we could still take refuge in the trees fairly easily, and standing on two feet we could scan more of the area for danger.
In the last chapter they lay out rules for hominid survival which include living in social groups of 25 to 75, using both trees and ground, being able to scatter into smaller groups or come together to mob or intimidate predators, having more than one male in social groups as protection, using males as intimidating-looking (because upright) sentinels, carefully choosing sleeping sights and employing the advantage of intelligence.
"Those were the survival rules and surely our earliest ancestors must have followed them. We can state that with total authority - if they hadn't exhibited the behavior of a hunted species, we wouldn't be here debating our origins."
By this time I was convinced, but I didn't need much convincing. There's a lot of interesting material here - particularly the debunking of the murderous chimp model (which arose out of human interaction on Jane Goodall's Gombe site) a fascinating discussion of fossil teeth and diet, the close examination of the anatomical features of fossils like "Lucy" and others. And, of course, the extensive and detailed descriptions and illustrations of (happily) extinct predators like the bone-crushing dog, which weighed 250 pounds and hunted in packs, the bear-dogs, which could bound like cats and had teeth like wolves and the more familiar hyenas and leopards and lions and tigers.
Their scathing dismissal of "man the hunter" and every scientist who ever touted such a bloodthirsty beast is highly amusing though occasionally shrill and a bit puzzling, since man the mighty hunter has long been cast off his pedestal and forced to share a level playing field with woman the gatherer, for one. Primatologists have long admitted that our ancestors were prey as well and that predation certainly influenced our evolution.
The difference here is the degree of emphasis Hart and Sussman place on predation as an evolutionary catalyst and the extent of their research on predation. Their book is readable and innovative, with provocative arguments on subjects from the role of "original sin" in scientific theory to comparing the ubiquitous presence of dancing as well as violence in all human cultures.
Thoroughly annotated, with a lengthy bibliography and a good index, this is a fine addition to the growing body of well-written and entertaining books on human origins.
--Portsmouth Herald
Interesting, thought provoking, but opportunity missed.......2005-12-02
Were the ancestors of humans ever part of "the circle of life" as described by Mufasa in The Lion King? Do the eagle talon marks on the fossilized skull of the 2 million year old Taung child represent an oddity or hint at the norm? Why did Robert Ardrey push so strongly for a "Man the hunter" explanation of hominid evolution? Are current studies of chimpanzees representative of the way Homo habilis or H. erectus interacted with their environment and their potential predators?
Donna Hart and Robert Sussman tackle these issues in Man The Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution. They are not the first to suggest that early humans sometimes ended in the belly of the beast (remember the opening scene in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey). They are not the first to suggest that humans are still preyed upon by large carnivores (as in David Quammen's Monster of God). They are one of the first to lay out a thoughtful argument for professionals and laypeople alike that humans are what they are because of predation, and not in spite of it.
I agree with Hart and Sussman that early humans were shaped by the coevolutionary dance always occurring between predators and prey, and that, for reasons that are still unclear, this idea of "man the hunted" has lost in both popular and scientific circles to a "man the hunter" model to explain human evolution. They lay out the evidence for 1) early humans as prey in a predator-rich environment (fossil evidence), and 2) modern primates as prey in today's human modified world (who eats living primates).
Hart and Sussman do go off on some tangents that I found puzzling and irritating. They obviously have problems with Richard Dawkin's "selfish gene" theory, and they are not fans of E. O. Wilson's sociobiology synthesis (although it seemed they only read the last chapter in his book). They didn't reference the interesting book by David Baron, The Beast in the Garden, on mountain lion predation on humans. And they missed a wonderful opportunity to focus on the "so what" question. If modern humans truly were shaped by predation, what can this knowledge tell us about ourselves? Randolph Nesse and George C. Williams take this route in their book, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. What can we understand about ourselves in light of the revelation that humans spent most of their existence foraging for food and avoiding becoming food? How does that relate to our interactions with each other, other animals, the wilderness, open space, caves, pet cats and dogs, parasites, and on, and on?
I enjoyed the book. It is readable, interesting, and well referenced. Hart and Sussman have opened a door. They are inviting us in to think about who we really are, and why.
Book Description
Award-winning journalist Julian Sher goes behind the headlines about child pornography to describe how police officers, prosecutors, and high-tech analysts are fighting back against a tide of abuse to save victims.
Granted extraordinary access by law enforcement agencies worldwide, Sher talks with FBI investigators, Department of Homeland Security, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Interpol, New Scotland Yard, and sex crimes units in Canada and Australia.
Drawing on candid jailhouse interviews in penitentiaries, court Confessions, and hidden blogs, Sher exposes the dark underbelly of the Web to reveal how predators isolate and groom their victims; how they use secret Internet chat rooms to swap images of abuse and security tips and tricks to foil the police; and how shady entrepreneurs make millions from the trade of child exploitation material.
In riveting detail, we see how clue-by-clue, and image-by-image, investigators use CSI-type techniques and old-fashioned hard detective work to track down the predators. From Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond to a global child protection center in London, England, a new generation of computer technology is being developed to make the web safer for children.
Included are the latest tips and resources for parents, children, and teens wanting to ensure safety online.
Book Description
"Reads like a crime novel . . . each chapter ends on a cliff-hanging note."—Seattle Times
When residents of Boulder, Colorado, suddenly began to see mountain lions in their backyards, it became clear that the cats had returned after decades of bounty hunting had driven them far from human settlement. In a riveting environmental tale that has received huge national attention, journalist David Baron traces the history of the mountain lion and chronicles one town's tragic effort to coexist with its new neighbors. As thought-provoking as it is harrowing, The Beast in the Garden is a tale of nature corrupted, the clash between civilization and wildness, and the artificiality of the modern American landscape. It is, ultimately, a book about the future of our nation, where suburban sprawl and wildlife-protection laws are pushing people and wild animals into uncomfortable, sometimes deadly proximity.
Customer Reviews:
Beast in the Garden Review.......2007-09-19
Extremely well written. I've recommended this book to all my friends and family.. not only is it intriguing and interesting, but its also incredibly informative. It opens your eyes to issues that you probably have not ever thought of. I'd give this book 10 stars if I could.
Beast in the Garden.......2007-06-27
I read this book because a friend at work had it.
I bought two copies from Amazon after reading it: one for me, and one for a friend researching/photographing mountain lions in South Dakota. I've already loaned out my copy to another friend who lives in Colorado and Nebraska and he said he remembers when the Idaho Springs incident happened.
This book is well written and does read like a detective story - but the reality is chilling. I couldn't stop reading it. I can't wait to read it again.
Thanks to Mr. Baron for such excellent work.
Tim Reigert
I loved this book........2007-03-08
"Beast in the Garden" was an extremely interesting book. It was full of facts and entertaining, although although a bit disturbing, at the same time. I live in an area where there are bears in many back yards and this book really takes a very informed look into the suburban/wildlife dynamic. I would definitely recommend it. My daughter is reading it now.
The Beast is Brilliant.......2007-01-09
This is a simply brilliant exposition of the Boulder that I grew up in. Baron examines the situation well and pays attention to the wildlife issues that were relevant at the time and are still relevant now. A few historical problems do come up, but they are merely anecdotal and hardly detract from the story.
Two things really make this a great book:
-if you're from Boulder or the Front Range, you'll be saying "Oh, I've been there" or "Hey, I know that guy" throughout the whole book.
-this book is action-packed. If they could make a movie out of it, they should.
Most of all, Baron pays attention to the characters and really goes in depth with who they are. I'm mostly interested in wildlife, however I found his portrayal of the people the most exciting.
A Cautionary Tale for Garden Dwellers.......2006-11-03
A fitness freak teenager, Scott Lancaster, skips his lunch period to run - his track a mountain trail just upslope from his Idaho Springs, Colorado, high school. The track lies within a few hundred yards of I-70, not far from Colorado's gambling towns, Central City and Black Hawk, about 40 miles west of Denver. Not unusual behavior for a youngster who often cut classes to go running.
But Scott Lancaster did not come back to school or to home. Two days later, a search team including many of Scott's fellow students, about ready to give up looking, found his brutally assaulted body in heavy underbrush, just off his trail.
A Beast in the Garden killed Scott.
The book tells the tale in a readable way. How the Garden came to be. How the wilderness areas at the edge of human development along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains were set aside as nature preserves in which the Beasts could live undisturbed. How the Beasts' natural predators were driven off. How the Beasts adapted to co-existence with the humans at the edges of the Garden. How the Beasts were seen moving further and further into developed areas like Boulder and Idaho Springs. How the Beasts showed their killer instinct with dogs and cats and sheep and other smaller animals. How the Beasts changed their ways, hunting in broad daylight, killing animals people said it feared. How the Beasts repeatedly attacked humans, even though it was said they would not. How a Beast treed Lynda Walters. How Andy Peterson saved himself by gouging out another Beast's eye. How a Beast killed Scott.
The Beasts in the Garden were mountain lions.
The book is the story of a killing and the hunt for the killer. It is also a story of a young naturalist, Michael Sanders, then of the Boulder County Parks and Open Space District, helping humans learn to live with the raccoons and other small invaders from the Garden. Mountain lion sightings piqued Sanders' fascination for big animals. Sanders and others began to build a systematic knowledge base of verified mountain lion sightings. They showed how the population of mountain lions appeared to be growing. How the sightings were of behaviors that proved more and more dangerous to domestic animals, even to humans. How Sanders warned that mountain lions posed significant danger - and was often ignored.
Finally, the book is a study in eco-sociology. Of the forces that created and still maintain the Garden as a preserve for wilderness creatures. Of the conflicting values of those living on the edge of the Garden, those who would remove mountain lions from the Garden, those whose saw humans as the intruders onto the mountain lions' natural home. It is a story that pits neighbor against neighbor. More instructively, it pits Sanders and his friends against the State and Federal park and wilderness managers. It pits emerging reality against common wisdom.
David Baron is a reporter on science and the environment for National Public Radio who first became interested in the behavior of mountain lions in developed areas while doing a 1996 story on a hiker who was killed by a mountain lion near Auburn, CA. His interest took him to the Garden that is the wilderness near Boulder and to Scott Lancaster's and Michael Sanders' stories. Beast in the Garden is a very good read, a well-written mystery that would be thoroughly satisfying were it not for the macabre reality.
The reality is not unique to Colorado's Front Range. My local newspaper has reported many sightings in the town north of my community, sightings and attacks on sheep, goats, and other small animals. A cashier at the local supermarket lost her dog to a mountain lion that is a frequent visitor in the community 15 miles south of mine. A nearby vineyard owner reports a female that has given birth to twin kits annually for several years. The regional paper has reported mountain lion sightings in urban areas, one just a few blocks from the county's community college. On a recent ten-day swing through the Pacific Northwest, there were reports of mountain lion sightings in developed areas in the Tacoma News Tribune, the Vancouver Sun, the Lewiston, Idaho, Tribune, and the Portland Oregonian.
So reality reminds us that my community, a former sheep ranch of about 3000 acres that has been developed with 2300 properties and more than 1500 acres of common land - forests and meadows - is a Garden, too. We, too, are seeing mountain lions. Not just in the forests, but in our meadows, close to the trails along the ocean bluff. Deer kills are reported routinely. We, too, have lost some of the sheep we keep to reduce fire risk, and there are musings about pets that have gone missing. No attacks on humans - yet.
The lessons in Beast in the Garden do not stop at the Front Range; they are applicable in my community - and maybe yours.
Book Description
Most crimes of sexual violence are committed by people known to the victim-acquaintances and family members. Yet politicians and the media overemphasize predatory strangers when legislating against and reporting on sexual violence. In this book, Eric S. Janus goes far beyond sensational headlines to expose the reality of the laws designed to prevent sexual crimes. He shows that "sexual predator" laws, which have intense public and political support, are counterproductive. Janus contends that aggressive measures such as civil commitment and Megan's law, which are designed to restrain sex offenders before they can commit another crime, are bad policy and do little to actually reduce sexual violence. Further, these new laws make use of approaches such as preventive detention and actuarial profiling that violate important principles of liberty.
Janus argues that to prevent sexual violence, policymakers must address the deep-seated societal problems that allow it to flourish. In addition to criminal sanctions, he endorses the specific efforts of some advocates, organizations, and social scientists to stop sexual violence by, for example, taking steps to change the attitudes and behaviors of school-age children and adolescents, improving public education, and promoting community treatment and supervision of previous offenders.
Janus also warns that the principles underlying the predator laws may be the early harbingers of a "preventive state" in which the government casts wide nets of surveillance and intervenes to curtail liberty before crimes of any type occur. More than a critique of the status quo, this book discusses serious alternatives and how best to overcome the political obstacles to achieving rational policy.
Customer Reviews:
Gracefully written and powerfully argued.......2006-11-10
It might not seem an inviting task to try to stem the mounting popular tide in favor of ever longer detention, by any means possible, of convicted sexual predators, but Eric Janus has managed to do so in a book that is carefully argued and evinces clearly both his wisdom and his compassion for the victims of crime. In addition to discussing the merits of extended detention of known predators and public monitoring of released sex offenders, treating both trends in the context of the question of how best to prevent sexual violence, Failure to Protect also takes up two larger social questions: why we are so focused on the "worst of the worst;" and our apparent willingness to trade civil liberties for safety (or the illusion of safety).
The book is astonishingly well written. It is lucidly organized into chapters and sections; you always know where you are in the argument. The prose is as elegant and clear as the reasoning is strong, free of the jargon that might so easily have marred a book on this subject. The punctuation and footnoting deserve commendation, as they unobtrusively guide the flow and document the argument. Rarely these days does any author get every detail of writing so right. Even the production gives evidence of unhurried care, with next to no misprints.
a book for everyone interested in justice for all.......2006-10-28
Eric Janus, with a clear mind and precise hand, sets out to lead the call for reasonableness in an era of too eager politcally and socially to respond to "sexual predators" without consideration of the long term impacts of our political and legal tendencies to punish without logic and demonize without understanding the true causes of sexual violence in our everyday lives. This book raises questions about the future of us all as we rush to "fix" a problem we don't really understand and certainly don't want to talk about among ourselves.
Book Description
Essential strategies to keep children and teens safe online
As our children and teens race down the onramp to the Information Superhighway, many parents feel left behind in the dust. News stories about online sexual predators, child pornography, cyberbullies, hate groups, gaming addiction, and other dangers that lurk in the online world make us feel increasingly concerned about what our children are doing (and with whom) in cyberspace. In Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens, Internet safety expert Nancy Willard provides you with need-to-know information about those online dangers, and she gives you the practical parenting strategies necessary to help children and teens learn to use the Internet safely and responsibly.
Parents protect younger children by keeping them in safe places, teaching them simple safety rules, and paying close attention. As children grow, we help them gain the knowledge, skills, and values to make good choices—choices that will keep them safe and show respect for the rights of others. In Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens, Willard shows you how those same strategies can be translated from the real world to the cyberworld, and that you don't have to learn advanced computer skills to put them into effect. As you work on these strategies with your child, you will also discover that remaining engaged with what your children are doing online is much more valuable than any blocking software you could buy.
"Willard blends the perspectives of a wise parent and a serious scholar about issues related to Internet behavior and safety. . . . Pick up the book, open it to any random page, and you will find on that page or nearby a wealth of helpful advice and useful commentary on the cyberreality facing our children and on how to deal with any of the issues she's identified."
—Dick Thornburgh, J.D., former U.S. Attorney General; chair, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Youth Pornography and the Internet
"Simply put, this book is a must-read for anyone—parents, educators, law enforcement, and policymakers alike—concerned with the critical issue of children's internet safety and what to do about it."
—Douglas Levin, senior director of education policy, Cable in the Classroom
Customer Reviews:
A must-read for concerned parents.......2007-06-23
I've worked with kids and computers since 1979. Nancy Willard is my go-to authority for encouraging children's safe and responsible Internet use. Her latest book is theoretically sound, well-researched and comprehensive (including the very latest technologies) and offers a practical approach to this serious issue. It's also well-organized, with recommendations for specific age groups. Nancy knows all about the dangers and benefits of going online, and CYBER-SAFE KIDS will help parents act as guides and mentors, not cyber-watchdogs.
Cyber Savvy Parents (and Teachers).......2007-03-27
Most folks are aware of such internet dangers as free-flowing pornography reachable by kids, but how many are aware of all the other dangers facing young ones such as identify theft, addictive gaming schemes (as time wasters and replacement for real world activities), the ability to down load term papers and other works so as to avoid homework, or, again, the rights of sites to do whatever they want with up-loaded materials, a condition which can cause extreme embarassment and even financial loss? Willard's excellent text deals with each potential danger accoding to type and age group. Each chapter begins with an incident demonstrating the danger (an excellent awareness-building tool, especially for those of us who had no idea this particular danger existed)followed by an analysis of what is involved in the danger, and then positive and usable advice for parents on how to prevent their children from falling prey to the danger. But make no misake, Willard is a strong advocate of the benefits of internet participation for children when they are properly supervised, and that does not mean peeking over their shoulder all the time. This positive attitude towards the internet, the while recommending non-invasive supervision is a remarkably well-developed strength of her book. She is not whining about the dangers or urging censorship as so many gloom and doom critics do; she is providing a positive means for parents to help their children make the most of their web experience, an experience critical to every youngster in this age of the cyper-reality of communication. (A prototype parent-child agreement is included, and should be a valuable tool for developing cooperation among family members). As an educator, I find this book an essential tool for all teachers and school administrators, and, of course all librarians, who need this background to appreciate the pitfalls which may occur in classrooms and reading areas and how to be aware and prevent them. And a school board will find this study an excellent reference for developing appropriate policies for the district.
Important Book for Parents and Teachers.......2007-03-20
I wish there had been a book like this when my two boys were exploring the internet in the 90's. Things have gotten even more troubling for parents today and this book will help guide them through the difficult job of parenting in our new online world.
It is filled with great suggestions and a lot of information---and to be honest, some of it is very frightening from a parent's point of view. But if knowledge is power, this is a book that all parents should have when trying to navigate the very difficult job of parenting in this new and rapidly changing online world. There are sections for parents of younger children, 8-10 year olds, 11-13 year old, and 14-18 year olds. There are suggestions for "teachable moments" and how to guide your children to ethical and safe uses of this technology.
In my opinion this is a "must buy" book for parents and educators. Thank you, Dr. Willard.
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