Steven Pinker

47 books

Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles by Steven Pinker

Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles

Steven Pinker

378 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

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Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure by Jacques A. Mehler, Steven Pinker

Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change

Jacques A. Mehler, Steven Pinker

432 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Judith Rich Harris

462 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

419 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Steven Pinker

432 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think by Michael Ruse, Margo Wilson, David Deutsch, Michael Hansell, Randolph M. Nesse, Daniel C. Dennett, Robert Aunger, A.C. Grayling, Steven Pinker, Andrew F. Read, Seth Bullock, Philip Pullman, Alan Grafen, Richard Harries, Ullica Segerstråle, Martin Daly, Mark Ridley, David Haig, Michael Shermer, David Philip Barash, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Kim Sterelny, Patrick Bateson, Marek Kohn, Helena Cronin, John R. Krebs

Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think

Michael Ruse, Margo Wilson, David Deutsch, Michael Hansell, Randolph M. Nesse, Daniel C. Dennett, Robert Aunger, A.C. Grayling, Steven Pinker, Andrew F. Read, Seth Bullock, Philip Pullman, Alan Grafen, Richard Harries, Ullica Segerstråle, Martin Daly, Mark Ridley, David Haig, Michael Shermer, David Philip Barash, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Kim Sterelny, Patrick Bateson, Marek Kohn, Helena Cronin, John R. Krebs

283 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Steven Pinker

368 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television by Steven Pinker

The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television

Steven Pinker

96 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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

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

Steven Pinker

499 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience by Steven Pinker, Michael S. Gazzaniga

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

Steven Pinker, Michael S. Gazzaniga

448 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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