bySteven Pinker Recommended 5 times “This is a popular science book from a highly respected cognitive scientist. He took one part of the mind, language, and looked at it from every angle. It’s a really wonderful example of what you can do: take research into something as fundamental to...
Books -- the Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven PinkerSteven Pinker. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York: William Morrow,...MacNeal, EdwardInternational Society for General Semanticset Cetera...
Author:Steven Pinker Get the book:http://amzn.to/1rCF0QK As a Harvard psychologist with notable work in the world of linguistics, I was excited for this book. While wonderfully written, it suffers from being overly-descriptive and too long—a flaw the book suggests to avoid! Otherwise it ...
“Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress,”by Steven Pinker, PhD (New York:Viking, 2018). Think life was better 50 years ago? 100? 500? Steven Pinker would say you’re wrong. Whether or not we feel it, empirically, life is better today than it ever ...
“My favorite of the last decade is [Steven] Pinker’s Better Angels of our Nature. It is long but profound look at the reduction in violence and discrimination over time. I review a lot of the books I read at gatesnotes.com (is that too self-promotional? http://b-gat.es/12GKLyN...
By Steven Pinker The Writer’s Block: 786 Ideas to Jump-start Your Imagination by Jason Rekulak Words: A User’s Guide by Stewart Clark and Graham Pointon 101 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power ...
By Steven Pinker Publication Date: September 28, 2021 A primer in logical thinking and an entertaining expedition through all the trapdoors we can tumble through when we try to parse reality or bend it to our will.View on Amazon Reset: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval ...
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by Joseph W. Esherick and Matthew Combs(US), translated by Xiao Chen 11. 《一百年漂泊: 台湾的故事》 杨渡 著 生活•读书•新知三联书店 2016-1 A Hundred years of drifting--Taiwan story By Du Yang 12. 《文明是副产品》 郑也夫 著 ...
The newest outing from Harvard prof Steven Pinker looks to be just that sort of book: “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature” explores human cognition: “The Stuff of Thought” explores the duality of human cognition: the modesty of its construction and the majesty...