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THE STUFF OF THOUGHT - STEVEN PINKER KARTONIERT...

In The Stuff of Thought  Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human
nature. The result is a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. What does
swearing reveal about our emotions? Why does innuendo disclose something about relationships?
Pinker reveals how our use of prepositions and tenses taps into peculiarly human concepts of
space and time  and how our nouns and verbs speak to our notions of matter. Even the names we
give our babies have important things to say about our relations to our children and to
society. With his signature wit and style  Pinker takes on scientific questions like whether
language affects thought  as well as forays into everyday life - why is bulk e-mail called spam
and how do romantic comedies get such mileage out of the ambiguities of dating? The Stuff of
Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of readers
of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats  Shoots & Leaves.

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