ne o the most basic—and ancient—orms o birth control is the condom. Utilized by all cultures or millennia, and reerred to by many colorul euphe- misms—baudruche, preservativo, machine, peau divine, rubber,a ndsa  ety —

it has eatured in the lives, loves, and letters o some o the most amous men in history. Shakespeare, Casanova, George Bernard Shaw, to mention only a ew, all appreciated and wrote about the importance o using “preventatives.”

returned rom the New World inected with the “Great Pox” (syphilis).
This led to the rediscovery o the condom as a disease preventative.
• Sixteenth-century Italian anatomist Gabriello Fallopio (discoverer o the
Fallopian tube) should be considered the ather o the modern condom;

• During the Great Depression, while other businesses went bankrupt,
condom manuacturers ound themselves doing a booming trade
throughout the 1930s, one o Wall Street’s ew successes. Sadly, it
was cheaper to pay 25 cents or arub be r than to have children.

• Germangu mm is were acknowledged to be the nest in the world, until
the Nazis made them illegal, earing Jewish doctors had coerced
innocent young Germans into using them as birth control.

• AIDS has brought the condom ull circle. Not or the rst time in history
has the little device been vili ed as a promoter o dirty, illicit sex and
lauded as a liesaving device.

 e story of this humble piece of paraphernalia is full of
intriguing insights into human character with all its fl aws
and foibles as well as many fascinating historical details.

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A tour de force of popular science writing that brilliantly
melds scientifi c research with intriguing family history and
puts both a human and a scientifi c face to evil.

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ave you ever met a person who let you wondering, “How could someone be so twisted? Soe vil ?” Prompted by clues in her sister’s diary ater her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the reader inside the head o the kinds o

Starting with psychology as a rame o reerence, Oakley uses cutting-edge images o the working brain to provide startling support or the idea that “evil” people act the way they do mainly as the result o a dysunction. In act, some deceitul, manipula- tive, and even sadistic behavior appears to be programmed genetically—suggesting that some people really are born to be bad. But there are unexpected ringe benets to “evil genes.” We may not like them—but we literally can’t live without them.

Oakley detly ties together the big picture implications o revolutionary neuroscien- ti c and genetic discoveries, showing the eerily similar behavioral tics o Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Slobodan Milosevic. The dramatic recent scienti c ndings presented in

as business, religion, and everyday lie. In act, history itsel has been shaped by the strange confuence o genes and environment that science is just now beginning to understand.

worked as a translator on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea, served as a radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and risen rom private to regular army captain in the US Army.