How the Mind Works
#211 of 3,809 books · #18 in Science & Technology
Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (1997). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.
Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do people believe in ghosts? From the acclaimed author of Enlightenment Now and Better Angels of Our Nature, How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection.
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- Penguin UK
- ISBN-13
- 9780141927879
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Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyWon(1997)
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1998)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1997)
Other awarded books from Steven Pinker
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011)0 wins · 10 score
- The Blank Slate (2002)0 wins · 7 score
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