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How the Mind Works

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“A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear.” ―New York Review of Books

In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, probably the most world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational―and why are we so ceaselessly irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, offended, 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 give an explanation for 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 up to date with a new foreword by the writer.

Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man’s annual salary, on average, increase $600 with every inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he identical to Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, every now and then outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers the entire above and more in his marvelously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science. Pinker argues that Darwin plus canny computer programs are the key to understanding ourselves–but he also throws in apt references to Star Trek, Star Wars, The Far Side, history, literature, W. C. Fields, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, surrealism, experimental psychology, and Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty and his 888 children. If How the Mind Works were a rock show, tickets would be scalped for $100. This book deserved its spot as Number One on bestseller lists. It belongs on a short shelf alongside such classics as Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett, and The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. Pinker’s startling ideas pop out as dramatically as those hidden pictures in a Magic Eye 3D stereogram poster, which he also explains in brilliantly lucid prose.

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