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How the Mind Works Paperback - 2009

by Steven Pinker

This Pulitzer Prize finalist is a fascinating, provocative work exploring the mysteries of human thought and behavior. Pinker synthesizes the best of cognitive science and evolutionary biology to explain what the mind is, how it has evolved, and, ultimately, how it works.


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In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational--and why are we so often irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, angry, disgusted, or sexually aroused? Why do we fall in love? And how do we grapple with the imponderables of morality, religion, and consciousness? How the Mind Works synthesizes the most satisfying explanations of our mental life from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and other fields to explain what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and contemplate the mysteries of life.

This edition of Pinker's bold and buoyant classic is updated with a new foreword by the author.

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  • Title How the Mind Works
  • Author Steven Pinker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 2009-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393334777 / 0393334775
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychology, Human evolution
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010286532
  • Dewey Decimal Code 150
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