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Title: The Stuff of Thought
Subtitle: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Narrator: Dean Olsher
Format: Abridged
Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-09-07
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 676 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind
Publisher's Summary:
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 everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
Critic Reviews:
"Pinker is a star, and the world of science is lucky to have him." (Richard Dawkins)
"[Pinker's] vivid prose and down-to-earth attitude will once again attract an enthusiastic audience outside academia." (Publishers Weekly)
