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

Pinker, Steven

ISBN 10: 0670063274 / ISBN 13: 9780670063277

Editore: Viking (2007) no place given

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Very good minus, light shelfwear. First Printing hardbound Lightly edgeworn, lightly rubbed jacket, 3/4" tear bottom back.

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• Titolo: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
• Editore: Viking (2007) no place given
• ISBN 10: 0670063274
• ISBN 13: 9780670063277
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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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 reveal facts about key human concepts, emotions, and relationships.

Informazioni sull?autore

Steven Pinker is the 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 ofTime's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.