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  How the Mind Works (Paperback) By (author) Steven Pinker

  

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  Short Description for How the Mind WorksWhy do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? This work explores the nature and history of the human mind. It looks at the computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 04 February 1999
  • Format: Paperback 672 pages
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  • Categories: Popular Psychology
  • ISBN 13: 9780140244915 ISBN 10: 0140244913
  • Sales rank: 17,953

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• "Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind...He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us "see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy" - "Sunday Times".