Автор: Steven Pinker Название: The Better Angels of Our Nature ISBN: 0141034645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141034645 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2507.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (2 шт.) 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 Sense of Style ISBN: 0241957710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241957714 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
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 Language Instinct ISBN: 014198077X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141980775 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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 Рейтинг: Цена: 2243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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 Blank Slate ISBN: 014027605X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140276053 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: от 1652.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. This title shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature.
Автор: Steven Pinker Название: The Stuff of Thought ISBN: 0141015470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141015477 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children`s names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we threaten and bribe and seduce in such elaborate, often comical ways? This title looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are.
Автор: Pinker, Steven Название: The Better Angels of Our Nature ISBN: 0143122010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143122012 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1931.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
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: Pinker, Steven Название: Stuff of Thought, The ISBN: 0143114247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143114246 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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: Enlightenment Now ISBN: 0241337011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241337011 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1293.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Oneof the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront usIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking intochaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer, happier, morepeaceful, more stimulating and more prosperous - not just in the West, but worldwide.
Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent and inspiring value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress.The challenges we face today are formidable, including inequality, climate change, Artificial Intelligence and nuclear weapons. Butthe way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past; it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved otherproblems in the past.
In making the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how we can use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve the problems that inevitablycome with being products of evolution in an indifferent universe. We will never have a perfect world, but - defying the chorus of fatalism and reaction - we can continue to make it a better one.
Описание: From the author of the forthcoming Enlightenment Now (February 2018), 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 should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn't carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish. Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.
Описание: "A terrific book... Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health to wars, the environment to happiness, equal rights to quality of life." --The New York TimesThe follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naive hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
Автор: Pinker, Steven Название: Blank Slate, The ISBN: 0142003344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142003343 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1931.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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.
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