Steven Pinker

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1.		The Stuff of Thought from Viking Price: $9.99 Customer Review: I am a Pinker fan and I enjoyed this book but it is closely written with much detailed linguistic background to support Pinker's ideas on the relation between cognition and language. Entertaining sections include the one on dirty words and his critique of Fodor's "Extreme Nativism": "Fodor is a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Modern Classics Price: $10.85 Customer Review: I found this book to be an interesting and informative read. While I am interested in linguistics (and thus was probably a bit more excited about the topic than the average person), I think this book would also be enjoyable for anyone. Pinker writes in an understandable manner, mostly avoiding... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.88 Customer Review: A must read! Throughout this book, Pinker shows a thorough knowledge of a wide variety of fields, covering from neuroscience to politics to philosophy and much more. This book argues against the premise that the human brain begins as an empty tablet awaiting the experiences of life to teach it how... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		How the Mind Works from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $12.89 Customer Review: In the spirit of brevity, Pinker completely reiterates Robert Wright in every sense of the word "reiterates." I won't bore anyone with arbitrary citations. If you are a reader. Read Pinker's "How the Mind Works" and then read Robert Wright's "The Moral Animal," I think anyone will... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 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: $10.20 Customer Review: The book is not in a perfect condition (a chewing was gum found between the pages:(...) but the delivery was very efficient.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language from Harper Perennial Price: $10.20 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.	[no image]	The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature from Viking	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Connections and Symbols (Cognition Special Issue) from The MIT Press Price: $27.00	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (The Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $11.90 Customer Review: I was originally introduced to this book because I was told to read "caring for your introvert", which is a hiliariously bitter essay by a self-professed introvert. I then read the rest of the book, and was overall very impressed. As is in all of science and nature study, there are some essays... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) from The MIT Press Price: $43.20	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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