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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature Tapa blanda - 2008

de Steven Pinker

New York Times"-bestselling author Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how words explain human nature.


Resumen

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language

Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books?including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate?have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today?s most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

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This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now. "Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."
--The New York Times Book Review
Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

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  • Título The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
  • Autor Steven Pinker
  • Encuadernación Tapa blanda
  • Edición Reprint
  • Páginas 512
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Penguin Books, New York
  • Fecha de publicación 2008-08-26
  • ISBN 9780143114246 / 0143114247
  • Peso 0.94 libras (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensiones 8.34 x 5.52 x 1.12 pulgadas (21.18 x 14.02 x 2.84 cm)
  • Época de 18 a UP años
  • Cursos 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Thought and thinking, Language and languages - Philosophy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 401

Reseñas en medios

' Engaging and provocative . . . filled with humor and fun.'
Douglas Hofstadter, Los Angeles Times

' Pinker is not only wonderfully clear; he is also blessedly witty.'
The Boston Globe

Citas

  • New York Times Book Review, 11/23/2008, Page 20

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Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family professor of Psychology and Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers. His other books include The Better Angels of our Nature and The Blank Slate.
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