Parker, Steve
Summary: A Brief Illustrated History of Life on Earth' charts the evolution of living species all the way from 2.5 billion years ago, through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods and right through to today. With stunning full-color images and illustrations, this beautiful book is sure to fascinate and charm the young reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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Contents: Beliefs and traditions, to 900 -- The rise of scientific medicine, 900-1820 -- Medicine in the Industrial Age, 1820-1920 -- Modern medicine, 1920-2000 -- Genes and future dreams, 2000-present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Surveys different types of ships and submarines, discussing how they operate and what they do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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Summary: "Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Summary: Psychologist Pinker explains how the mind works in a completely new way--by examining how we use words. Every time we swear, we reveal something about human emotions. When we use an innuendo to convey a bribe, threat, or sexual come-on (rather than just blurting it out), we disclose something about human relationships. Our use of prepositions and tenses tap into peculiarly human concepts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: "In Words and Rules, Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively single phenomenon and examining it from every angle. The phenomenon - regular and irregular verbs - connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomsky and his critics; the attempts to simulate language using computer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999
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Summary: " A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media?Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow and Co. 1994
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Summary: The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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Summary: Steve Pinker discusses the idea that language is an instinct, as innate to us as flying is to geese. This book covers the biological origin, acquisition by children and the grammatical structure of human language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Folio Society 2008