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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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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,

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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 'superlatively gifted science writer' (The Times) Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or 'out there,' 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, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It's also necessary for social coordination: everything from rendezvousing at a time and place to speaking the same language to forming enduring relationships 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 go to great lengths 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 come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretense of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. Artists and humorists have long mined the intrigues of common knowledge, and Pinker liberally uses their novels, jokes, cartoons, films, and sitcom dialogues to illuminate social life's tragedies and comedies. Along the way he answers questions like: -Why do people hoard toilet paper at the first sign of an emergency -Why are Super Bowl ads dominated by crypto -Why, in American presidential primary voting, do citizens typically select the candidate they believe is preferred by others rather than their favorite -Why did Russian authorities arrest a protester who carried a blank sign -Why is it so hard for nervous lovers to say goodbye at the end of a phone call -Why does everyone agree that if we were completely honest all the time, life would be unbearable Consistently riveting in explaining the paradoxes of human behavior, and 'one of the most insightful books.about what makes us human' (Bill Gates), When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each other's heads and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result. 364 pp. 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 'superlatively gifted science writer' (The Times) Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or 'out there,' 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, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It's also necessary for social coordination: everything from rendezvousing at a time and place to speaking the same language to forming enduring relationships 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 go to great lengths 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 come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretense of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. Artists and humorists have long mined the intrigues of common knowledge, and Pinker liberally uses their novels, jokes, cartoons, films, and sitcom dialogues to illuminate social life's tragedies and comedies. Along the way he answers questions like: -Why do people hoard toilet paper at the first sign of an emergency -Why are Super Bowl ads dominated by crypto -Why, in American presidential primary voting, do citizens typically select the candidate they believe is preferred by others rather than their favorite -Why did Russian authorities arrest a protester who carried a blank sign -Why is it so hard for nervous lovers to say goodbye at the end of a phone call -Why does everyone agree that if we were completely honest all the time, life would be unbearable Consistently riveting in explaining the paradoxes of human behavior, and 'one of the most insightful books.about what makes us human' (Bill Gates), When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each other's heads and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result. 364 pp. Englisch.

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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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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.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 364 pp. 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 'superlatively gifted science writer' (The Times) Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or 'out there,' 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, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It's also necessary for social coordination: everything from rendezvousing at a time and place to speaking the same language to forming enduring relationships 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 go to great lengths 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 come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretense of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. Artists and humorists have long mined the intrigues of common knowledge, and Pinker liberally uses their novels, jokes, cartoons, films, and sitcom dialogues to illuminate social life's tragedies and comedies. Along the way he answers questions like: -Why do people hoard toilet paper at the first sign of an emergency -Why are Super Bowl ads dominated by crypto -Why, in American presidential primary voting, do citizens typically select the candidate they believe is preferred by others rather than their favorite -Why did Russian authorities arrest a protester who carried a blank sign -Why is it so hard for nervous lovers to say goodbye at the end of a phone call -Why does everyone agree that if we were completely honest all the time, life would be unbearable Consistently riveting in explaining the paradoxes of human behavior, and 'one of the most insightful books.about what makes us human' (Bill Gates), When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each other's heads and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result.