What is the truth about human nature? Are we each born a blank slate upon which experience is written? Steven Pinker here argues that our usual explanations of human behaviour - stated most clearly in the human sciences of psychology, ethics and politics - tend to deny what is now undeniable: the role of an inherited human nature. Differences in personality or achievement, whether seen among races, ethnic groups, sexes or individuals, are routinely explained away as due not to differences in innate constitution but differences in experience. This work argues otherwise.
What is the truth about human nature? Are we each born a blank slate upon which experience is written? Steven Pinker here argues that our usual explan...
Analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and reveals what this can tell us about ourselves. This book shows how we use space and motion as metaphors for more abstract ideas, and uncovers the deeper structures of human thought that have been s
Analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and reveals what this can tell us about ourselves. This book shows how we use space and motion ...
"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read." --Bill Gates (May, 2017)A provocative history of violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank Slate and the forthcoming Enlightenment Now
Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime,...
"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read." --Bill Gates (May, 2017)
Steven Pinker argues that modernity and its cultural institutions are actually making us better people. He suggests that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent over millennia and decades.
Steven Pinker argues that modernity and its cultural institutions are actually making us better people. He suggests that, contrary to popular belief, ...
"Charming and erudite . . . The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem." --Time.com Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing--and why should we care? From the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and the forthcoming Enlightenment Now In this entertaining and eminently practical book, the cognitive scientist, dictionary consultant, and New York Times-bestselling author Steven...
"Charming and erudite . . . The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem." --Time.com Why is so much ...
What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? This book tells about the modern art of writing, and shows us why we all need a sense of style.
What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? This book tells about the modern a...
