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1.		The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature from Viking Adult Price: $10.80 Customer Review: heavy going but if you are interested in the development of language and wish to have an alternative to the chomsky theory then this book is interesting and absorbing.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $9.68 Customer Review: Steven Pinker, the eminent cognitive scientist formerly of MIT (now at Harvard), has produced an intelligent, eloquent treatise in support of human nature; daring to tread where many others before him have who unfortunately faced the wrath of naive, uninformed, and simply dogmatic intellectuals and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		How the Mind Works from W.W. Norton & Co. Price: $11.46 Customer Review: Trying to explain "how the mind works" is a big job. Steven Pinker has convinced himself that he's up to the task. It's a thickish book, and the text is dense. I think the earlier chapters are particularly heavy-going; I often had to put the book down for a week or two before I felt ready to come... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Modern Classics Price: $8.00 Customer Review: The book is very interesting and well written. Steven Pinker is an excellent writer. I am enjoying the book very much.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do from Free Press Price: $10.12 Customer Review: This is a book that's well worth reading even if you disagree with it. Harris is much better at attacking other people's studies than at defending her own theories, but the attack is done in such an amusing way, with a great deal of personal anecdotes and wit that it provides painless lessons in how... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Words and Rules : The Ingredients of Language Price: $14.51 Customer Review: This book is definitely fascinating, and Pinker weaves his sense of humor throughout explanations of why verbs, regular and irregular, are the way they are.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (The Best American Series) from Mariner Books Price: $2.58 Customer Review: Another wonderful edition to the series. Pinker in his introduction says the best science articles "delight by instructing" and goes on to explain the lessons of each of the articles. Thus the Introduction adds a new dimension that some others in this series are missing, a master teacher explaining... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Connections and Symbols (Cognition Special Issue) from The MIT Press Price: $15.99	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		What is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable from SIMON & SCHUSTER	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Language Learnability (Cognitive Science Series) from Harvard University Press Price: $25.00 Customer Review: At first glance, this appeared to be a more formidable effort than "The Language Instinct", which seemed aimed at a very wide (and perhaps more credulous) audience. However, the argument seems fairly simple: 1. A grammar can be abstracted from speech (in this case, English speech) based on... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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