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Blank Slate: Denying Human Nature in Modern Lifeby Steven PinkerISBN 0141886242 (0-14-188624-2)
Softcover, Lane, Allan
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Natureby Steven PinkerISBN 014027605X (0-14-027605-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blank Slate : The Modern Denial of Human Nature'Book summary:In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.[via]More editions of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature:
Connections and Symbolsby Steven Pinker , Jacques MehlerISBN 0262660644 (0-262-66064-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Hotheadsby Jorge Luis Borges, Steven PinkerISBN 0141022388 (0-14-102238-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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How the Mind Worksby Steven PinkerISBN 0140244913 (0-14-024491-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Mind Works'Book summary:Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvelously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science. Pinker argues that Darwin plus canny computer programs are the key to understanding ourselves--but he also throws in apt references to Star Trek, Star Wars, The Far Side, history, literature, W. C. Fields, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, surrealism, experimental psychology, and Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty and his 888 children. If How the Mind Works were a rock show, tickets would be scalped for $100. This book deserved its spot as Number One on bestseller lists. It belongs on a short shelf alongside such classics as Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett, and The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. Pinker's startling ideas pop out as dramatically as those hidden pictures in a Magic Eye 3D stereogram poster, which he also explains in brilliantly lucid prose. [via]
The Language Instinct : The New Science of Language and Mindby Steven PinkerISBN 0140175296 (0-14-017529-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language Instinct : The New Science of Language and Mind'Book summary:In The Language Instinct , Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, how it evolved. With wit, education, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats. [via]
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Languageby Steven PinkerISBN 0061336467 (0-06-133646-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language'Book summary:In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved. With wit, erudition, and deft use it everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar bats. "The Language Instinct" received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. [via]
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Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structureby Steven Pinker , Jacques A. MehlerISBN 0262660733 (0-262-66073-3)
Softcover, MIT Press
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Overregulation in Language Acquisitionby Steven Pinker , Gary F. Marcus, Michael UllmanISBN 0226504565 (0-226-50456-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Stuff of Thought, Theby Steven PinkerISBN 0143114247 (0-14-311424-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Visual Cognitionby Steven PinkerISBN 0262661780 (0-262-66178-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkableby John Brockman, Dawkins, Richard (AFT), Steven PinkerISBN 0061214957 (0-06-121495-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable'Book summary:From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true.
What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the leading online forum Edge (www.edge.org), the call went out, and this compelling and easily digestible volume collects the answers. From using medication to permanently alter our personalities to contemplating a universe in which we are utterly alone, to the idea that the universe might be fundamentally inexplicable, What Is Your Dangerous Idea? takes an unflinching look at the daring, breathtaking, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter our world and the way we live in it.
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Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Languageby Steven PinkerISBN 0060958405 (0-06-095840-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language'Book summary:Human languages are capable of expressing a literally endless number of different ideas. How do we manage it--so effortlessly that we scarcely ever stop to think about it? In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, a look at the simple concepts that we use to devise works as complex as love sonnets and tax laws, renowned neuroscientist and linguist Steven Pinker shows us how. The latest linguistic research suggests that each of us stores a limited (though large) number of words and word-parts in memory and manipulates them with a much smaller number of rules to produce every writing and utterance, and Pinker explains every step of the way with engaging good humor.
Pinker's enthusiasm for the subject infects the reader, particularly as he emphasizes the relation between how we communicate and how we think. What does it mean that a small child who has never heard the word wug can tell a researcher that when one wug meets another, there are two wugs? Some rule must be telling the child that English plurals end in -s, which also explains mistakes like mouses. Is our communication linked inextricably with our thinking? Pinker says yes, and it's hard to disagree. Words and Rules is an excellent introduction to and overview of current thinking about language, and will greatly reward the careful reader with new ways of thinking about how we think, talk, and write. --Rob Lightner [via]
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