HOW THE MIND WORKS CL by Steven Pinker

HOW THE MIND WORKS CL by Steven Pinker

In this delightful, acclaimed 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 see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, angry, disgusted, or sexually aroused? Why do we fall in love? And how do we grapple with the imponderables of morality, religion, and consciousness? How the Mind Works synthesizes the most satisfying explanations of our mental life from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and other fields to explain what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and contemplate the mysteries of life. This new edition of Pinker's bold and buoyant classic is updated with a new foreword by the author.

Undeniably brilliant. --Newsday

Big, brash, and a lot of fun. --Time

Hugely entertaining.always sparkling and provoking. --Wall Street Journal

Witty popular science that you enjoy reading for the writing as well as for the science. --New York Times Book Review

Steven Pinker is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition; writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and The Atlantic; and is the author of ten books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.

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ISBN 10	0393045358
Title	HOW THE MIND WORKS CL
Author	Steven Pinker
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	1997-10-17
Number of pages	672
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