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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
Category: Philosophy
In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our va ...Show more
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind by Steven Pinker
Category: Non-Fiction
Describes various facets of human language - its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects.
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
Category: Non-Fiction
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th ...Show more
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker (Harvard University)
Category: Non-Fiction
A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by "New York Times" bestselling author Steven Pinker 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? Why shou ...Show more
The Stuff of Thought: : Language as a window into human nature by Steven Pinker
Category: Non-Fiction
The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can ...Show more