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...

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...

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language: The New Science of Language and Mind

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living...

In "Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure", der renommierte Psychologe und Kognitionswissenschaftler Steven Pinker untersucht, wie Kinder Sprache erlernen. Er konzentriert sich speziell auf die Struktur von...

The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind.In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language:...

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

An exploration of the nature and history of the human mind, in a new re-jacketed edition with a new foreword on the book's origins and influence. von Pinker, Steven

In "Verlichting nu: een pleidooi voor rede, wetenschap, humanisme en vooruitgang" argumentiert der Autor Steven Pinker, dass die Werte der Verlichtung – Vernunft, Wissenschaft, Humanismus und Fortschritt – heute relevanter sind denn je....