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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. y. New York. 2007. September 2007. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780670063277. 499 pages. hardcover. keywords: Language Psychology Philosophy. DESCRIPTION - New York Times 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. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important and popular science writers. Now, 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. inventory #42368.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a 'fascinating' (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum.It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives. Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It's also necessary for social coordination: everything from meeting up at a time and place to forming enduring bonds of friendship, romance, or authority. Humans have a sixth sense for common knowledge, and we create it with signals like laughter, tears, blushing, eye contact, and blunt speech. But people also may strive to avoid common knowledge-to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can't know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room. Pinker shows how the hidden logic of common knowledge can make sense of many of life's enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that seem to come from out of nowhere, the eruption of cancel culture, and even the awkwardness of a first date. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a 'fascinating' (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum.It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives. Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It's also necessary for social coordination: everything from meeting up at a time and place to forming enduring bonds of friendship, romance, or authority. Humans have a sixth sense for common knowledge, and we create it with signals like laughter, tears, blushing, eye contact, and blunt speech. But people also may strive to avoid common knowledge-to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can't know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room. Pinker shows how the hidden logic of common knowledge can make sense of many of life's enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that seem to come from out of nowhere, the eruption of cancel culture, and even the awkwardness of a first date. Englisch.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 1094 pages. cover worn and soiledThis title is shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize 2012. This acclaimed s teven pinker, author of the language instinct and the blank slate, argues th at, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? the images of con flict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almos t obscene claim to be making. Extraordinarily, however, steven pinker shows viol ence within and between societies - both murder and warfare - really has decline d from prehistory to today.we are much less likely to die at someone else's hand s than ever before. Even the horrific carnage of the last century, when compared to the dangers of pre - state societies, is part of this trend. Debunking both the idea of the 'noble savage' and an over - simplistic hobbesian notion of a 'n asty, brutish and short' life, steven pinker argues that modernity and its cultu ral institutions are actually makin. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The end of history did not bring peace. It brought the strongman back. This time disguised as an oligarch, a technocrat, a financial alchemist, an AI militant or an AI-augmented executive. This new breed is patient, humorless, and clinically allergic to accountability. They do not need armies. They need only meetings that never end, memos that never arrive, crises that never resolve, and slogans elastic enough to mean whatever is convenient this quarter. For forty-one years Enver Hoxha ruled a country encircled by enemies using nothing more complex than silence, boredom, and the calibrated distribution of fear. He died old, medicated, and still obeyed. No one has improved on his method-because no one has needed to. This is not another leadership book about vision, empathy, or "unlocking human potential."It is the distilled, field-tested operating system for durable power in parliaments, boardrooms, ministries, and machine-learning pipelines. Ten laws. Zero illusions. How to turn indecision into depth.How to weaponize silence.How to grow hierarchies that devour the competent.How to turn crisis into oxygen.How to speak for hours and commit to nothing.The age of the polite technocrat is over.The strongman has upgraded. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a 'fascinating' (Financial Times), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum.It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives. Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It's also necessary for social coordination: everything from meeting up at a time and place to forming enduring bonds of friendship, romance, or authority. Humans have a sixth sense for common knowledge, and we create it with signals like laughter, tears, blushing, eye contact, and blunt speech. But people also may strive to avoid common knowledge-to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can't know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room. Pinker shows how the hidden logic of common knowledge can make sense of many of life's enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that seem to come from out of nowhere, the eruption of cancel culture, and even the awkwardness of a first date.…

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorSteven Pinker is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition writes for publications such as the New York Tim.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Enver Hoxha for New Managers | 10 Commandments for Leaders in Times of Austerity | Stephen Pinker | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565104178 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . | Stephen Pinker | Taschenbuch | XVI | Englisch | 2025 | Simon + Schuster LLC | EAN 9781668212585 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Paperback. Condition: New. 2004 ed.