Steven Pinker

Celebrated intellectual Steven Pinker offers a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help you understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? These are the goals of Rationality, Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now....

Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’ "new favorite book of all time”) answers all the questions here....

The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives....

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind....

If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality....

An eye-opening explanation of how human beings learn and use language....

Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings....

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media....

Bad writing can't be blamed on the internet or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretence, empathy and a drive for coherence. Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century....

In The Stuff of Thought, Steven 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....

In exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, 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.

Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our environment....

Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are....