Steven Pinker, Author . Viking $26.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-670-03151-1
In his last outing, How the Mind Works, the author of the well-received The Language Instinct
made a case for evolutionary psychology—or the view that human beings have a hard-wired nature that evolved over time. This book returns to that...
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Steven Pinker, Author . Viking $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-06327-7
Bestselling Harvard psychology professor Pinker (The Blank Slate
) investigates what the words we use tell us about the way we think. Language, he concludes, reflects our brain structure, which itself is innate. Similarly, the way we talk about...
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Steven Pinker, Author , read by Dean Olsher. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314258-4
Unless you have a reasonably good background in linguistics, you’ll find this excellent book much easier to read than to listen to. Olsher is not to blame; he reads clearly and at a (slightly rapid) conversational speed. Pinker aims for the...
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Steven Pinker, Author W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (660p) ISBN 978-0-393-04535-2
In The Language Instinct (1994), Pinker demonstrated that the mind is structured for the learning and producing of language. Here, the director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT widens his scope, explaining the structure of the mind in
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Steven Pinker, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (494p) ISBN 978-0-688-12141-9
A three-year-old toddler is ``a grammatical genius''--master of most constructions, obeying adult rules of language. To Pinker, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology psycholinguist, the explanation for this miracle is that language is an instinct,
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Steven Pinker, Author Basic Books $26 (348p) ISBN 978-0-465-07269-9
MIT linguist Pinker builds on his previous successes (How the Mind Works; The Language Instinct) with another book explaining how we learn and deploy word, phrase and utterance. Some linguists (notably Noam Chomsky) have argued that everything in...
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Steven Pinker. Viking, $40 (832p) ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3
In the perennial debate over nature versus nurture, Steven Pinker has established himself as the pre-eminent contemporary spokesman for biology as destiny. Every few years, Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, publishes a...
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Steven Pinker. Viking, $27.95 (366p) ISBN 978-0-670-02585-5
Forget Strunk and White’s rules—cognitive science is a surer basis for clear and cogent writing, according to this iconoclastic guide from bestselling Harvard psycholinguist Pinker (The Language Instinct). Pinker deploys history, logic, and his own...
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Steven Pinker. Viking, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-525-42757-5
Harvard psychology professor Pinker (The Sense of Style) defends progressive ideals against contemporary critics, pundits, cantankerous philosophers, and populist politicians to demonstrate how far humanity has come since the Enlightenment. These...
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Steven Pinker. Viking, $32 (432p) ISBN 978-0-525-56199-6
In this revealing pop take on the mind and society, Harvard psychologist Pinker (The Better Angels of Our Nature) investigates the nature of straight-thinking and the many ways it goes crooked. He lays out the basics of formal logic, probability,...
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