Steven Pinker is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition; writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and The Atlantic; and is the author of ten books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.
"Undeniably brilliant."
*Newsday*
"Big, brash, and a lot of fun."
*Time*
"Hugely entertaining…always sparkling and provoking."
*Wall Street Journal*
"Witty popular science that you enjoy reading for the writing as
well as for the science. No other science writer makes me laugh so
much."
*Mark Ridley - New York Times Book Review*
"Alters completely the way one thinks about thinking…its unforeseen
consequences probably can't be contained by a book."
*Christopher Lehmann-Haupt - New York Times*
"Pinker has a knack for making the profound seem obvious....A
fascinating bag of evolutionary insights."
*The Economist*
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