How the Mind Works

How the Mind Works

By
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
1997 • 660 pages

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67 books

Favorites

Ania
Anna
Hell
Easy travel to other planets
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Come on All You Ghosts
Blood Meridian
The Crossing
The Last Samurai

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397 books

Cognitive And Behavioral Sciences

Apeiron
Alina
The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
Love's Executioner
A Way of Being
Freud and Beyond : A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination

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3 books

Science And Inquiry Book Club

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Stefany
The Hidden Reality
How the Mind Works
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

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112 books

Med Priority

Volenord
Volenord
Cosmos
Thinking in systems : a primer
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Psychology of Everyday Things
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

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31 books

Started Reading And Stalled

davegri
David Griver
The Brothers Karamazov
Infinite Jest
Great Expectations
The Big Picture
Plato's Republic
תקלה בקצה הגלקסיה
The History of Western Philosophy

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58 books

Anthropology Civilization Societies

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Ali Ismail
Before the Dawn
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Lucy
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
Masters of the planet seeking the origins of human singularity
Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans

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17,840 books

My Library

Nitin
Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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147 books

Non Fiction

matti
Matti
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Consciousness Explained
Freedom Evolves

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73 books

Nonfiction

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David Schejtman
Mastery
The Truth Detector
Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life
Do the Work: The Official Unrepentant, Ass-Kicking, No-Kidding, Change-Your-Life Sidekick to Unfu*k Yourself
Stealing Fire
Periodization: 12 Weeks to Breakthrough- A Guide to Creating Results through Focus, Commitment and Accountability

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11 books

Psychology

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tarun
How the Mind Works
Nudge: The Final Edition
Non Violent Communication A Language of Life
The Courage to be Happy
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Feeling Good

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1 book

Science

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tarun
How the Mind Works

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Language

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How the Mind Works

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Library

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Chris Hunter
Aftermath
Invincible, Vol. 19
Irredeemable
Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks
Letter 44, Volume 2: Redshift
Gods & monsters
Mirka Andolfo's Hot Paprika Omnibus

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107 books

Owned

adem
Adam
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
Un Lun Dun
Your Inner Fish
Fifty Degrees Below
The Iraq Study Group report
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

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180 books

Non Fiction

adem
Adam
Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Into the Wild
Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health-Care Law-The Affordable Care Act-and What It Means for Us All
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
The Communist Manifesto
A Season of Stones: Living in a Palestinian Village

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35 books

Science

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Adam
The Red Queen
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest For the Origins of Behavior
Why Darwin Matters
Seven Daughters of Eve
Your Inner Fish
Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations

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192 books

Broken Brain

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Jonathan
Finish What You Start
No More Mr. Nice Guy
The Alchemist
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Outliers: The Story of Success
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Blink