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~ Winner of the Los Angeles Times Boo Prize for Science and Technology - 1997, and the William James Book Award - 1999
Language and Nature Tetralogy: How the Mind Works
One of the world's leading cognitive scientists Steven Pinker explains in How the Mind Works what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows humans to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, appreciate art and music, and ponder the mysteries of life.
Tackling the inner workings of the human psyche, How the Mind Works synthesizes the most satisfying explanations of our mental life from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and other fields to illuminate and perhaps completely alter that way one thinks about thinking.
"A fascinating bag of evolutionary insights, How the Mind Works is a great example of how Pinker excels at making the profound seem obvious." -- The Economist