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About Steven Pinker
See more books from this AuthorCall it continuing education for brain owners, an instruction manual on how thought works—and how to think better.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag... | See more reviews from KirkusThe majesty of Pinker’s theories is only one side of the story. The other side is the modesty of how he built them. It all makes sense, when you look at it the right way.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag... | See more reviews from NY TimesYou can't help but admire the breadth of Pinker's inquiry, but at the same time wonder at the point. Sometimes you long for a narrative thread that would tie all the stuff together.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag... | See more reviews from Guardian...The Stuff of Thought does have what are arguably the two most important qualities of a good popular science book: it makes its subject accessible, and it makes its readers think.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag... | See more reviews from GuardianThe writing is, as usual, brilliant. Energetic, passionate, intelligent and lively, Pinker is erudite but accessible, lucid and precise but never stifled, conversational and occasionally colloquial but never crude.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag...The Stuff of Thought is an accessible yet wonderfully illuminating study of language and is yet another intellectual treat from Steven Pinker.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag......Pinker illuminates complex concepts with examples from popular culture-which, hopefully, all our minds can all grasp.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag...Steven Pinker is the premier purveyor of the parsed poesy of plain prose….fire from strange gods, indeed!
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag...... I found this book ultimately disappointing because it fails to deliver on its central claim of explaining the nature of human thought.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag...I fear we cannot draw Pinker’s conclusions based on the different idiomatic expressions of different languages and cultures.
Read Full Review of The Stuff of Thought: Languag......Pinker is always entertaining. Even the more technical parts of the book are full of the usual cartoons, jokes, song lyrics, and anecdotes he uses to illustrate his points.
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Rated the book as 4.5 out of 5