How the mind works

By:

Pinker, Steven

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Penguin UK 2015Description: xx, 660 pISBN:

9780141980782

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

153 PIN

Summary: "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 glittering tour de force" - Spectator "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind... He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us "see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy" - Sunday Times (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/how-mind-works/9780141980782)

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Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Human Resource and Organization Behvaiour	153 PIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	01/24/2025	006371

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"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 glittering tour de force" - Spectator

"Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind... He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us "see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy" - Sunday Times

(https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/how-mind-works/9780141980782)

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