The New Enlightenment, Pinker, Steven

Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: The Better Angels of Our Nature
ISBN: 0143122010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143122012
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 1940 р.
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Описание: "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 (February 2018)

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, and terrorism, violence has actually been in decline over long stretches of history. Exploding myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious book continues Pinker's exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly enlightened world.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Better Angels of Our Nature
ISBN: 0141034645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141034645
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 1962 р.
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Описание: Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. In this title, the author shows violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Language Instinct
ISBN: 014198077X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141980775
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 1500 р.
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Описание: How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did language evolve? In this landmark book, Pinker explains the mysteries of language within a coherent theory- that language is an adaptation for communication. 'Dazzling . .

. Pinker's big idea is that language is as innate to us as flying is to geese . .

. Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations.'Independent 'Reading Steven Pinker's book is one of the biggest favours I've ever done my brain . .

. exhilaratingly brilliant.'Richard Dawkins 'An extremely valuable book.'Noam Chomsky 'Brilliant.' ObserverNow with a new afterword

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: How the Mind Works
ISBN: 0141980788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141980782
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 1962 р.
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Описание: Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do people believe in ghosts? How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Sense of Style
ISBN: 0241957710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241957714
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Stuff of Thought
ISBN: 0141015470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141015477
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 1500 р.
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Описание: 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 shaped by evolutionary history. It also explores the emotional impact of language.

Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: Stuff of Thought, The
ISBN: 0143114247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143114246
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1848 р.
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Описание: This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now.

"Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."
--The New York Times Book Review

Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: Blank Slate, The
ISBN: 0142003344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142003343
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 1940 р.
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Описание: A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now.

"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time

Now updated with a new afterword

One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

Автор: Steven Pinker
Название: The Blank Slate
ISBN: 014027605X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140276053
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 1500 р.
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Описание: What is the truth about human nature? Steven Pinker 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.

Автор: Jenny Alexander
Название: How To Get The Family You Want by Peony Pinker
ISBN: 1408132869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408132869
Издательство: A & C Black
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Цена: 815 р.
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Описание: Peony Pinker is fed up with her annoying, argumentative family. Her Gran tells her you can choose your friends but not your family; as you can`t have the family you want, you have to learn to want the family you`ve got. Peony isn`t sure that`s even possible. Can she stop Gran`s crazy ideas for improvement from causing disaster?

Автор: Pinker, Steven; Olsher, Dean
Название: Stuff of Thought, The - abr CDs
ISBN: 0143142585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143142584
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3691 р.
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Автор: Pinker, Steven
Название: The Stuff of Thought
ISBN: 0670063274 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670063277
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2767 р.
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Описание: "New York Times" bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous booksincluding the Pulitzer Prize finalist "The Blank Slate"have catapulted him into the limelight as one of todays most important and popular science writers. Now, in "The Stuff of Thought," Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature.

The result is a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. What does swearing reveal about our emotions? Why does innuendo disclose something about relationships? Pinker reveals how our use of prepositions and tenses taps into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and how our nouns and verbs speak to our notions of matter. Even the names we give our babies have important things to say about our relations to our children and to society.

With his signature wit and style, Pinker takes on scientific questions like whether language affects thought, as well as forays into everyday lifewhy is bulk e-mail called spam and how do romantic comedies get such mileage out of the ambiguities of dating? "The Stuff of Thought" is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of readers of everything from "The Selfish Gene" and "Blink" to "Eats, Shoots & Leaves,"