An extraordinary investigation into who we really are, by one of the world's most celebrated human rights lawyers.
Dexter Dias QC is a human rights barrister, part-time Crown Court judge and visiting researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard. As Queen's Counsel, he has been involved in some of the biggest cases of recent years involving human rights, murder, terrorism, crimes against humanity and genocide. He chaired and co-wrote the influential Bar Human Rights report to the Parliamentary Inquiry into FGM, has briefed and written reports for the UN around gender-based violence, and works pro bono internationally with survivors of modern day slavery, human trafficking and Violence Against Women and Girls.
Dexter Dias is on the side of the angels, who turn out to be us,
the people. He writes like an angel too. Uplifting and
indispensable.
*Howard Cunnell, author of Fathers and Sons*
In defining and describing his human types, he draws on lab
experiments, the animal kingdom, and all the literature you might
expect from a modern behaviourist. Yet the main body of the book,
the bits that transfixed and stayed with me, stopped me sleeping
but got me up in the morning, were the human stories that Dias has
travelled the world to find. His interviewees are always people,
the most vivid flesh and blood, never case studies. And yet that’s
not what’s so extraordinary about it: storytellers are rare, but
not vanishingly so... Dias’s work as a human rights lawyer gives
him this instinctive, urgent belief that all injustices, all
catastrophes, exploitations, acts of violence, all human misery can
be taken on and overcome, somehow, if the right people try and
there are enough of them. His combination of rigour, idealism and
pragmatism makes fertile terrain out of the most appalling
battlefields... I emerged from this book feeling better about
almost everything. The ideas in The Ten Types of Human are a
layperson’s opening into a fascinating academic field: but more
than that, a mosaic of faces building into this extraordinary
portrait of our species.
*Guardian*
The Ten Types of Human is a fantastic piece of non-fiction, mixing
astonishing real-life cases with the latest scientific research to
provide a guide to who we really are. It’s inspiring and
essential.
*Charles Duhigg*
This book is the one. Dexter Dias has written a game changer. Think
Sapiens and triple it.
*Julia Hobsbawm, author of Fully Connected*
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