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How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker · 1997

Psychology · ranked #23 in category

"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 glitteri

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Category
Psychology
First published
1997 · 1990s
Author
Steven Pinker
Standing
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