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1	Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In this title, MIT Professor Steven Pinker explains the origins of language and its evolution, the instinctive way we use language, and the relationships between 'proper' languages and slang, pidgins, and other 'improper' versions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.67! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist New York Times"-bestselling author Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how words explain human nature. see all copies from $3.40! new only from $6.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In this accessible scientific work, a cognitive scientist and best-selling author of THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT and HOW THE MIND WORKS investigates human language evolution through the ages and tells how the developing mind processes, learns, and modifies language. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	How the Mind Works more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In this accessible analysis, a psychologist merges cognitive science and biology to examine the brain's evolution and the quirks of human nature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist Widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on language and the workings of the mind, Pulitzer Prize finalist Pinker has now undertaken the most ambitious and controversial work of his career--a brilliant reexamination of the concept of human nature. see all copies from $2.27! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Language Instinct more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In this title, MIT Professor Steven Pinker explains the origins of language and its evolution, the instinctive way we use language, and the relationships between 'proper' languages and slang, pidgins, and other 'improper' versions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.60! \| first editions
7	What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable more books like this by John Brockman (Editor), Richard Dawkins (Afterword by), Steven Pinker (Introduction by) add to wishlist The author of "What We Believe but Cannot Prove" returns with another iconoclastic collection in which some of the world's leading scientific thinkers discuss ideas that are perilous for their potential practical uses and philosophical implications. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
8	The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In this title, MIT Professor Steven Pinker explains the origins of language and its evolution, the instinctive way we use language, and the relationships between 'proper' languages and slang, pidgins, and other 'improper' versions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
9	Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do about It: A Scientific Revolution in Reading more books like this by Diane McGuinness, Steven Pinker (Foreword by) add to wishlist Drawing on 25 years of cutting-edge research, the author presents scientific support for a new method of teaching children how to read that provides a real solution to the national literacy crises. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.67! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 more books like this by Steven Pinker (Editor), Tim Folger (Editor) add to wishlist Bestselling author and staff writer for "The New Yorker" Groopman edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Contributors include Walter Kirn, Ron Rosenbaum, Jeffrey Toobin, and Oliver Sacks. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The language instinct : the new science of language and mind more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist Simply by making noises with our mouths, we can reliably cause precise new combinations of ideas to arise in each other's minds. The ability comes so naturally that we are apt to forget what a miracle it is. Pursuing the ideas of Darwin and Chomsky, Steven Pinker offers a look at why we use language and where this ability comes from. Rather than ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.34! \| first editions
12 view cover	Connections and Symbols more books like this by Steven Pinker (Editor), Jacques A Mehler (Editor) add to wishlist Connections and Symbols provides the first systematic analysis of the explosive new field of Connectionism that is challenging the basic tenets of cognitive science. see all copies from $8.86! new only from $14.69! \| first editions
13 view cover	Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In tackling a learning paradox - how children acquire argument structure - the author synthesizes literature in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics, and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, the learning and development of verb meaning and syntax. He describes a new theory that has some surprising implications for ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $49.00! \| SVS
14 view cover	Instinto del Lenguaje, El by Steven Pinker add to wishlist see all copies from $34.45! new only from $41.84!
15 view cover	Visual Cognition more books like this by Steven Pinker (Editor) add to wishlist These essays tackle some of the central issues in visual cognition, presenting experimental techniques from cognitive psychology, new ways of modeling cognitive processes on computers from artificial intelligence, and new ways of studying brain organization from neuropsychology. see all copies from $3.75! new only from $25.66! \| SVS
16	Overregularization in Language Acquisition more books like this by Gary F Marcus, Michael Ullman, Steven Pinker add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
17	Language Learnability and Language Development: , more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning. Now reprinted with new commentary by the author, this classic work continues to be an indispensable resource in developmental psycholinguistics. see all copies from $13.97! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Language Learnability more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In this study, Steven Pinker develops an approach to the problem of language learning. This edition is reprinted with a new commentary by the author. see all copies from $12.70! new only from $99.00!
19 view cover	Hotheads (Pocket Penguins 70'S S. ) by Steven Pinker add to wishlist In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. Award-winning writer and psychologist Steven Pinker has ... see all copies from $2.53!
20 view cover	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 more books like this by Tim Folger (Editor), Steven Pinker (Editor) add to wishlist In his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, Steven Pinker writes that the best science writing "gives readers the blissful click, the satisfying aha!, of seeing a puzzling phenomenon explained." Here to deliver the blissful click are many of the most "eclectic, provocative" (Entertainment Weekly) science and nature ... see all copies from $2.01! new only from $3.40! \| first editions
21	Das Unbeschriebene Blatt by Hainer; Pinker Koiber, Steven add to wishlist see all copies from $46.03! new only from $84.28!
22 view cover	La Tabla Rasa more books like this by Steven Pinker add to wishlist see all copies from $64.61!
23 view cover	The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television by Steven Pinker add to wishlist Why are some words rude and others aren't? Why can launching into expletives be so shocking - and sometimes so amusing? In this hilarious extract from his bestselling "The Stuff of Thought" Steven Pinker takes us on a fascinating journey through the world of profanities, to show us why we swear, how taboos change and how we use obscenities in ... see all copies from $17.34! new only from $17.34!
24	El Instinto del Lenguaje by Steven Pinker add to wishlist see all copies from $41.99!
25 view cover	El Mundo De Las Palabras/ the Stuff of Thought: Una Introduccion a La Naturaleza Humana/ an Introduction to Human Nature by Steven Pinker add to wishlist see all copies from $78.55! new only from $78.55!

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