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9780670022953 | Viking Pr, October 4, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.
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9780143122012 | Penguin USA, September 25, 2012, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank SlateBelieve it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence.
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9781455839568 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 4, 2011), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: We’ve all asked, “What is the world coming to?
9781455839582 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 4, 2011), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: We’ve all asked, “What is the world coming to?
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9788420671925 | Alianza Editorial Sa, April 30, 2012, cover price $45.95
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9780688121419 | William Morrow & Co, February 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign languages, and why computers cannot learn human language
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9780061336461 | 1 reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2007), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved.
9780060958336 | 1 edition (Perennial, October 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign languages, and why computers cannot learn human language.
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9781455839681 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, December 6, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved.
9781455839704 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, December 6, 2011), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved.
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9781455839698, titled "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, December 6, 2011), cover price $84.97 | About this edition: In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved.
9781455839711, titled "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language: Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, December 6, 2011), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved.
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9780393045352 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A prominent cognitive scientist explains how the brain evolved to store and use information, allowing our ancestors to control their environment, and why we think and act as we do
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9780393318487 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1999), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A prominent cognitive scientist explains how the brain evolved to store and use information, allowing our ancestors to control their environment, and why we think and act as we do
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9781455839636 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, November 8, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind.
9781455839650 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, November 8, 2011), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind.
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9781879557505 | Abridged edition (Audio Scholar, January 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Popular cognitive scientist/linguist what the mind is, how it evolved,and how it allows us to see, think, feel and ponder the mysteries of life.
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9781455839643 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 8, 2011), cover price $84.97 | About this edition: In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind.
9781455839667 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 8, 2011), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind.
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9781455839575, titled "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 4, 2011), cover price $99.97 | About this edition: We’ve all asked, “What is the world coming to?
9781455839599, titled "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 4, 2011), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: We’ve all asked, “What is the world coming to?
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9780465072699 | Perseus Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: An examination of the human ability to use language by an MIT professor traces the history and evolution of the English language, the theories of Noam Chomsky, and the way children learn to use language
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9780060958404 | Reprint edition (Perennial, November 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An examination of the human ability to use language by an MIT professor traces the history and evolution of the English language, the theories of Noam Chomsky, the way children learn to use language, and much more.
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9780141038728 | Gardners Books, September 4, 2008, cover price $6.45
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9788449320538 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, October 15, 2007), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: En esta obra fascinante, Steven Pinker nos aporta una versión totalmente distinta de cómo funciona la mente: a través del lenguaje, y nos muestra cómo nuestras palabras pueden revelar el corazón mismo de la naturaleza humana.
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9780670063277 | 1 edition (Viking Pr, September 11, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents a study of the relationship between language and human nature, explaining how everything from swearing and innuendo to prepositions and baby names reveals facts about key human concepts, emotions, and relationships.
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9780143114246 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 26, 2008), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas.
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9780143142584 | Abridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, September 11, 2007), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Presents a study of the relationship between language and human nature, explaining how everything from swearing and innuendo to prepositions and baby names reveals facts about key human concepts, emotions, and relationships.
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9788420667324 | Italian edition edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007), cover price $44.95
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9780061214950 | Perennial, March 1, 2007, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A collection of essays by some of the world's leading scientists describes ideas and advances that could have devastating repercussions in terms of both their use and philosophical implications, ranging from using medication to change personality to examining a universe in which we are completely alone.
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9788449317903 | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, October 1, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: La concepción que podamos tener de la naturaleza humana afecta a todos los aspectos de nuestra vida, desde la forma en que educamos a nuestros hijos hasta las ideas políticas que defendemos.
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9780618246977 | Houghton Mifflin, October 14, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Anne Fadiman, Brian Hayes, Cullen Murphy, and Gary Taubes.
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9780618246984 | Mariner Books, October 14, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Anne Fadiman, Brian Hayes, Cullen Murphy, and Gary Taubes.
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9788449314896, titled "La tabla rasa / The Blank Slate" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, December 1, 2003, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: La concepción que podamos tener de la naturaleza humana afecta a todos los aspectos de nuestra vida, desde la forma en que educamos a nuestros hijos hasta las ideas políticas que defendemos.
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9780670031511 | Viking Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In a study of the nature versus nurture debate, one of the world's foremost experts on language and the mind explores the modern self-denial of our basic human natures.
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9780142003343 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 2003), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In a study of the nature versus nurture debate, one of the world's foremost experts on language and the mind explores the modern self-denial of our basic human natures.
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9780465072705 | Basic Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $20.01
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9780674510548 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 31, 1984, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning.
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9780674510531 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1996), cover price $25.50 | About this edition: In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning.
9780674510555 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning.
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9780060976514 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Building a bridge between 'innatists' and 'social interactionists,' a researcher contends that the capacity for language is wired into our brains by evolution and examines the relationship between words and thoughts, the proliferation of language, and the 'language mavens.
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9780226504568 | Society for Research in, October 1, 1992, cover price $15.00
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Product Description: How are word meanings represented in the human mind and woven together when we string words into sentences? How do children learn what words mean and how to use them? Representations of word meaning have become increasingly important in linguistic theories and new methodologies are now being widely used to study them...read more
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9781557863546 | Blackwell Pub, August 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: How are word meanings represented in the human mind and woven together when we string words into sentences?
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9780262161114 | Mit Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: In tackling a learning paradox that has challenged scholars for more than a decade, Pinker synthesizes a vast literature in linguistics and psycholinguistics and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, learning, and development of verb meaning and verb syntax.
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9780262660730 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, August 28, 1991), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is perfectly natural.
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9780262660648 | Bradford Books, June 20, 1988, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Does intelligence result from the manipulation of structured symbolic expressions?
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