Search results for Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
$24.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Argues that humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. This title shows that violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare - really has declined from prehistory to today. It also... Buy or find out more→
The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes
$13.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. This title argues that modernity and its cultural institutions are actually making us better people. It shows how... Buy or find out more→
The Language Instinct
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct propelled 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... Buy or find out more→
How the Mind Works
$26.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? This work explores the nature and history of the human mind. It looks at the computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us see,... Buy or find out more→
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
$26.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Argues that the biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values. This book reveals positive arguments for the compatibility of biology and humanism. Buy or find out more→
Steven Pinker
$95.75 – Paperback / VDM Publishing House
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary... Buy or find out more→
The Stuff of Thought:: Language as a Window into Human Nature
$26.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and reveals what this can tell us about ourselves. This book shows how we use space and motion as metaphors for more abstract ideas, and uncovers the deeper structures of... Buy or find out more→
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
$26.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Describes various facets 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... Buy or find out more→
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
$126.95 – Mixed media product / Brilliance Audio
In this extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers in the field of linguistics explains how language works--how people, ny making noises with their mouths, can... Buy or find out more→
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
$55.95 – Audio / Brilliance Audio
In this extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers in the field of linguistics explains how language works--how people, ny making noises with their mouths, can... Buy or find out more→
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
$118.95 – Audio / Brilliance Audio
In this extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers in the field of linguistics explains how language works--how people, ny making noises with their mouths, can... Buy or find out more→
How the Mind Works
$118.95 – CD-Audio / Brilliance Audio
Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? This work explores the nature and history of the human mind. It looks at the computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us see,... Buy or find out more→
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
$69.95 – CD-Audio / Brilliance Audio
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the... Buy or find out more→
How the Mind Works
$55.95 – CD-Audio / Brilliance Audio
Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? This work explores the nature and history of the human mind. It looks at the computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us see,... Buy or find out more→