Books
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The better angels of our nature | Steven Pinker | From Goodreads: Selected by *The New York Times Book Review* as a Notable Book of the Year The author of *The New York Times* bestseller *The Stuff* of Thought offers a controversial history of viole… | OL16239379W |
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What Are You Optimistic About? | Robert Shapiro,Lisa Randall,John McCarthy,Andrew Brown,Douglas Rushkoff,Richard Dawkins,Freeman J. Dyson,Jared Diamond,Brian Greene,Martin Rees,Paul J. Steinhardt,Martin Elias Pete Seligman,John Horgan,J. Craig Venter,Alexander Vilenkin,Charles Seife,Geoffrey Miller,Marcelo Gleiser,Michael Shermer,Steven Pinker,Lawrence Maxwell Krauss,Anton Zeilinger,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Daniel C. Dennett,John Brockman,Karl Sabbagh,Clay Shirky,Gino Segrè,Lee Smolin,Carlo Rovelli,Leonard Susskind,Sam Harris,Max Tegmark,Chris Anderson,Jerry Adler,Frank Wilczek | The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge … | OL2790329W |
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The Blank Slate | Steven Pinker | In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, 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 characteristi… | OL477826W |
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How the Mind Works | Steven Pinker | "Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glitter… | OL477829W |
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The Language Instinct ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science) | Steven Pinker | From the Preface... I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to try to satisfy that curiosity. Language is beginning to submit to that uniquely satisfying kin… | OL477832W |
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Words and Rules (Science Masters) | Steven Pinker | Duplicate of OL477847W | OL477840W |