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2003
| A passing motorist stops to help the passengers of a car that has crashed into an embankment. A hospice volunteer begins her shift in hospital ward caring for people with AIDS. A Vietnam chopper pilot stops the brutal execution of innocent civilians at Mylai by American soldiers. A firefighter responds to a routine call. All of these people are considered heroes, but what motivates such brave and altruistic acts, whether by trained professionals or just ordinary people? In Do Unto Others, Holoca....[more] |
1992
| "Intelligently addresses several of the most important unresolved issues and controversies about altruism." --The Journal of Politics All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public are seeking interventions which will not only inhibit the process, ....[more] |
1988
| Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor who has interviewed more than 700 European rescuers and nonrescuers, provides some surprising answers in this compelling work. |
2008
| Drawing on years of research by leading scholars, this informative book looks at the growing phenomenon of inter-group apology and international reconciliation and forgiveness between formerly opposed groups. In recent decades, more than one hundred apologies have been made by leaders or groups to those they have hurt. Altruism, Intergroup Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation focuses on these cases that show a positive outcome providing empirical evidence that there is a positive relationshi....[more] |
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