The Pulitzer Prize finalist author of The Blank Slate presents an accessible study of the relationship between language and human nature, explaining how everything from swearing and innuendo to prepositions and baby names reveal facts about ...

By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete?

"If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one.

This edition of Pinker's bold and buoyant classic is updated with a new foreword by the author.

Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen.

Now reprinted with new commentary by the author, this classic work continues to be an indispensable resource in developmental psycholinguistics.

Collective rationality depends on norms that are explicitly designed to promote objectivity and truth. Rationality matters.

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen.