The Professor in the Cage: Why men Fight and why we Like to Watch [Audiobook] download free by Instructor Jonathan Gottschall
- Listen audiobook: The Professor in the Cage: Why men Fight and why we Like to Watch
- Author: Instructor Jonathan Gottschall
- Release date: 2016/8/15
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780143108054
- Rating: 8.73 of 10
- Votes: 370
- Review by: Bexley Coble
- Review rating: 9.95 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/21
- Duration: 3H48M39S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-31
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, MPEG4, FLAC, MP3, MPEG-4 ALS (compression RAR, TBZ2, TAR.GZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M30S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: An English professor starts training in mixed martial arts, exploring the science and history behind the violence of men When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym opens across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge. Pushing forty, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, he works up his nerve and finds himself training for an all-out cage fight. He sees it not just as a personal test, but also as an opportunity to answer questions that have intrigued him for years: Why do men fight? And why do so many seemingly decent people love to watch? In The Professor in the Cage, Gottschall's unlikely journey from the college classroom to the fighting cage drives an important new investigation into the science and history of violence. The surging popularity of MMA-a full-contact sport in which fighters punch, choke, and kick each other into submission-is just one example of our species' insatiable interest both in violence and in the rituals that keep violence in check. From duels to football to the roughhousing of children, humans are masters of what Gottschall calls the monkey dance: a dizzying variety of rule-bound contests that establish hierarchies while minimizing risk and social disorder. Gottschall's unsparing odyssey-through extremes of pain, occasional humiliation, his wife's incredulity, and ultimately his own cage fight-opens his, and our, eyes to the uncomfortable truth that, as brutal as these contests can be, the world would be a much more chaotic and dangerous place without them.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Sociology: Sport & Leisure, Sports Books, Combat Sports & Self-defence, Violence In Society, Memoirs
- Download servers: FileServe, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, 4Shared, Localhostr, Google Drive, Syncthing, FreakShare, 1337x. Compressed in RAR, TBZ2, TAR.GZ, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.20 USD
- Dimensions: 137x211x23mm
- Weight: 227g
- Printed by: Not Available
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