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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .

By: Steven Pinker

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there, 1�7 is called... Read more

The Sense of Style

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker

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? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?

In The Sense of Style, the... Read more

The Better Angels of Our Nature

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 36 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the YearThe author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.Faced with the... Read more

How the Mind Works

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 26 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational—and why are we so often irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, angry, disgusted, or sexually aroused? Why do we fall in love? And how do we grapple with the... Read more

The Language Instinct

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling... Read more

Enlightenment Now

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR

"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the... Read more

Rationality

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

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’s "new favorite book of all time 1�7) answers all the questions here
 

Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and also appears to be losing its mind.... Read more

Think with Pinker

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Steven Pinker, Various, Tim Harford, Bill Gates...

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven Pinker's 12-part guide to thinking better

'A paean to human potential' The Telegraph

Cognitive scientist Professor Steven Pinker has spent his life thinking about thinking, and now he wants us to join him. With the aid of his critical thinking toolkit, he hopes to help us make smarter choices, become more rational, gain a greater... Read more

Rationality

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

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.

In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time... Read more

The Blank Slate

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Victor Bevine

Length: 22 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our environment. But this denies the heart of our being: human nature. Violence is not just a product of society; male and female minds are different; the genes we give our children shape them more than our parenting practices. To acknowledge our... Read more

The Sense of Style

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style.

More than ever before, the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written... Read more

The Stuff of Thought

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are.

Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while others fall out of... Read more

Enlightenment Now

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 19 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?

If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have... Read more

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

By: Steven Pinker

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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The Stuff of Thought - Abridged

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language

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... Read more