Steven Pinker
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Recommended Books
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Atrocities

The Blind Watchmaker
The Beginning of Infinity

One Two Three . . . Infinity
The Happiness Curve
Take Pride
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Getting Better

Whole Earth Discipline
The Strategy of Conflict
Books by Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven PinkerThe Sense of Style
Steven PinkerRationality
Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works
Steven PinkerWords and Rules
Steven PinkerHotheads
Steven PinkerEnlightenment Now
Steven PinkerThe Language Instinct
Steven PinkerLearnability and Cognition
Steven PinkerLexical & Conceptual Semantics
Steven PinkerVisual Cognition
Steven PinkerConnections and Symbols
Steven PinkerThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004
Steven PinkerLanguage, Cognition, and Human Nature
Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate
Steven PinkerLanguage Learnability and Language Development
Steven PinkerThe Stuff of Thought
Steven PinkerSource & Proof
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“Some of the many books I'm enjoying: @EmEsfahaniSmith @PorathC @stevemagness @BStulberg @tdufu @stevenbjohnson @bonniestjohn @ktparkerphoto”
“The founding document of evolutionary psychology, filled with insights about sex and the sexes, and more relevant than ever with #metoo.”
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“One of my most treasured books, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict, signed by Schelling in November ‘99.”
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