How the Mind Works
Author(s): 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 glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind...He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us "see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy" - "Sunday Times".
Product Information
Shortlisted for Rhone-Poulenc Science Books Prize 1999.
Steven Pinker is a best-selling author and Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. "Deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him" - The New York Times Book Review
Standard equipment; thinking machines; revenge of the nerds; the mind's eye; good ideas; hotheads; family values; the meaning of life.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.458
- : 01 December 1999
- : 198mm X 129mm X 28mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Steven Pinker
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 150
- : very good
- : 660
- : Popular psychology
- : illustrations, notes, references, index