The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Better Angels of Our Nature
ISBN: 0141034645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141034645
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. In this title, the author shows violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: How the Mind Works
ISBN: 0141980788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141980782
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do people believe in ghosts? How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Language Instinct
ISBN: 014198077X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141980775
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Описание: How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did language evolve? In this landmark book, Pinker explains the mysteries of language within a coherent theory- that language is an adaptation for communication. 'Dazzling . .

. Pinker's big idea is that language is as innate to us as flying is to geese . .

. Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations.'Independent 'Reading Steven Pinker's book is one of the biggest favours I've ever done my brain . .

. exhilaratingly brilliant.'Richard Dawkins 'An extremely valuable book.'Noam Chomsky 'Brilliant.' ObserverNow with a new afterword

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Sense of Style
ISBN: 0241957710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241957714
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Описание: What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? This book tells about the modern art of writing, and shows us why we all need a sense of style.

Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: The Better Angels of Our Nature
ISBN: 0143122010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143122012
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read."
--Bill Gates (May, 2017)

A provocative history of violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank Slate and the forthcoming Enlightenment Now (February 2018)

Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism, violence has actually been in decline over long stretches of history. Exploding myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious book continues Pinker's exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly enlightened world.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Stuff of Thought
ISBN: 0141015470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141015477
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Описание: Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children`s names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we threaten and bribe and seduce in such elaborate, often comical ways? This title looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are.

Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: Stuff of Thought, The
ISBN: 0143114247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143114246
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of 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.

Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: Blank Slate, The
ISBN: 0142003344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142003343
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Описание: A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now.

"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time

Now updated with a new afterword

One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Blank Slate
ISBN: 014027605X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140276053
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Описание: Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. This title shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature.

Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: Words and Rules: Ingredients of Language TPB
ISBN: 0062011901 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062011909
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: Words and rules
ISBN: 0753810255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753810255
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: One of the world`s science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.

Автор: Pinker Steven
Название: Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
ISBN: 0061336467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061336461
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind.

In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.