David Smith's Less than Human named one of 10 Best Books for 2012 by Montreal Review

has selected Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., Â鶹´«Ã½associate professor of philosophy, as one of it's 10 Best Books of 2012 in Social & Science.

Smith was recently named winner of the Cleveland Foundation's 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for Less Than Human.

Smith is also the author of Why We Lie:  The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal:  Human Nature and the Origins of War.

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