The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - Brossura

Pinker, Steven

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ISBN 10: 0143114247 ISBN 13: 9780143114246

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008

Riassunto

The Pulitzer Prize finalist author of The Blank Slate presents an accessible study of the relationship between language and human nature, explaining how everything from swearing and innuendo to prepositions and baby names reveals facts about key human concepts, emotions, and relationships. Reprint.

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Recensione:

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

"Pinker is a star, and the world of science is lucky to have him."
--Richard Dawkins

"Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."
-New York Times Book Review

"An important and inviting book."
--Science

"There's plenty of stuff to think about, but a lot of fun stuff too."
-Boston Globe

"Fascinating."
Wired

"Unfailingly engaging to read."
--New York Review of Books

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143114247
• ISBN 13: 9780143114246
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512