The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind

The Language Instinct : The New Science of Language and Mind

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STEVEN PINKER

Words, Language & Grammar

Penguin

"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind...He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us "see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy" - "Sunday Times".

How the Mind Works

Self-Help

Penguin??Books

'In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinker banishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values' - Helena Cronin, author of "The Ant and the Peacock". 'A mind blowing, mind opening expose. Pinker's profoundly positive arguments for the compatibility of biology and humanism are unrivaled for their scope and depth and should be mandatory, if disquieting, reading' - Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Past President of the Society for Neuroscience.

The Blank Slate : The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Penguin Group(CA)

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. A very good, clean & sound copy.

The Language Instinct: The new Science of Language and Mind

Hotheads (Pocket Penguins 70's S.)

Science & Math

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Dazzlingpinkers big idea is that language is an instinctas innate to us as flying is to geesewords can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of pinkers investigations - independent a marvellously readable bookilluminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects - nature

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Penguin Group

The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Bad writing can't be blamed on the Internet, or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ideas? How can we overcome the Curse of Knowledge, the difficulty in imagining what it's like not to know something we do? And can we distinguish the myths and superstitions from rules that enhance clarity and grace? As Pinker shows, everyone can improve their mastery of writing and their appreciation of the art (yes, 'their').

Sense of Style The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

London: Allen Lane

If you follow the news, the 21st century doesn't seem to be going so well. From 9/11 to the Great Recession, the Syrian civil war, the Ebola epidemic, growing inequality, racial unrest and bitterly contested elections, the world seems to be sinking into chaos and hatred. Moralizing commentators tell us that the decline of religious belief and close-knit communities has left us spiritually adrift, without a grounding in moral values, so it's no wonder we're suffering through an epidemic of loneliness, unhappiness and suicide. and then there are the futurologists who speculate on what will finish us off first: resource wars, nuclear annihilation, unstoppable climate change or robots that steal our jobs, enslave us and turn us into raw materials. But, as Steven Pinker argues in this landmark new book, we do not truly inhabit a dystopia of deprivation and violence: In fact, every global measure of human flourishing is on the rise. We're living longer, healthier, safer and more affluent liv

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress [Paperback] [Feb 12, 2018] Steven Pinker

History

Allen Lane.

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