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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
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Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
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Category: MIND,BODY & SPIRIT
"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." --New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational--and why are we so often irrational? How do we s ...Show more
Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science | Reading Level: very good
A user's guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues th ...Show more
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
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Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did language evolve? In this landmark book, Pinker explains the mysteries of language within a coherent theory- that language is an adaptation for communication.'Dazzl ...Show more
The Language Instinct (Popular Penguin) by Steven Pinker
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinctpropelled him to worldwide fame in 1994. His groundbreaking book's premise - that language is instinctual rather than acquired - so shook the foundations of biological science that the reverberations are still being felt today.
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
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Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In thi ...Show more
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