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How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in ...Show more
The Better Angels of Our Nature -The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes by Steven Pinker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
Do we really care about each other less than we did in the past? This myth-destroying book shows that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less, not more, violent from prehistory to today. Even the twentieth century, commonly perceived as the most brutal, is part of this trend ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
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