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New York Viking 2007 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good jacket 8vo. ix, 499pp, index, references, notes, diagrams. Or boards in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket, very small stain at bottom of front endpapers. Explains how the mind works by the way we use words.

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ISBN10: 0670063274, ISBN13: 9780670063277, [publisher: Viking, New York] Hardcover First printing of the first condition in fine condition, in a fine dust jacket. The book is half black and half palest green paper over boards with a black stamped spine. Pinker looks at questions of how language affects thought, and examines the workings of the human mind by examining how we use words and metaphors. ix, 499 pp. Language, words, Philosophy, Science, Linguistics, Anthropology. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Viking Books 2007 y hardcover New York. 2007. September 2007. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780670063277. 499 pages. hardcover. keywords: Language Psychology Philosophy. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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 books-including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate-have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's 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 life-why 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 ...

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