Sebastian Vogel, geboren 1955 in Berlin, ist promovierter Biologe und langjähriger Übersetzer. Neben den Werken Neil Shubins hat er Bücher von Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould und Steven Pinker ins Deutsche übertragen.
36 Ebooks by Steven Pinker
Alain de Botton & Malcolm Gladwell: Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?
‘;It’s just a brute fact that we don’t throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don’t execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.’ Steven Pinker ‘;The idea that because things have …
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€10.55
Steven Pinker: Gewalt
Die Geschichte der Menschheit – eine ewige Abfolge von Krieg, Genozid, Mord, Folter und Vergewaltigung. Und es wird immer schlimmer. Aber ist das richtig?
In einem wahren Opus Magnum, einer groß …
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€16.99
Steven Pinker: Der Stoff, aus dem das Denken ist
Das faszinierende Porträt unseres Geistes – der Klassiker jetzt auf Deutsch!
Wie kommt man direkt an das Denken heran? Über die Sprache. In ihr liegen unsere Vorstellungen von Raum und Zeit …
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€14.99
Steven Pinker: Aufklärung jetzt
Eine leidenschaftliche Antithese zum üblichen Kulturpessimismus und ein engagierter Widerspruch zu dem weitverbreiteten Gefühl, dass die Moderne dem Untergang geweiht ist.
Hass, Populismus und …
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€18.99
Steven Pinker: Das unbeschriebene Blatt
Mit einem aktuellen Vorwort zur Neuausgabe!
Auf John Locke geht die Vorstellung zurück, der Mensch sei ein leeres Blatt, auf dem im Verlauf des Lebens die persönlichen Erfahrungen eingetragen …
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€5.99
Steven Pinker: Language Instinct
"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the worlds leading expert on language and the mind …
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€6.54
Steven Pinker: Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker’s most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker’s seminal research explores the …
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Steven Pinker: Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker’s most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker’s seminal research explores the …
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€18.71
Alan Page (University of California, Los Angeles) Fiske & Tage Shakti (Northwestern University, Illinois) Rai: Virtuous Violence
What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? …
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€24.74
Steven Pinker: Words And Rules
One of the world’s science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.How does language work? How do children learn their …
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€3.99
Steven Pinker: Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television
Why do so many swear words involve sex, bodily functions and religion? Why are some words rude and others aren’t? Why can launching into expletives be so shocking – and sometimes so amusing?Steven …
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€4.49
Steven Pinker: Stuff of Thought
The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it – Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you …
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€9.49
Steven Pinker: Blank Slate
‘A passionate defence of the enduring power of human nature … both life-affirming and deeply satisfying’ Daily Telegraph Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our …
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€10.99
Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works
‘Powerful and gripping… To have read it is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche … a glittering tour de force’ Spectator Why do we laugh? What makes memories …
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€10.99
Steven Pinker: Language Instinct
‘Dazzling…Pinker’s big idea is that language is an instinct…as innate to us as flying is to geese…Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker’s …
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€9.49
Steven Pinker: Better Angels of Our Nature
‘The most inspiring book I’ve ever read’ Bill Gates, 2017’A brilliant, mind-altering book … Everyone should read this astonishing book’ Guardian’Will change the way you see the world’ Daily Mail …
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€11.99
Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER’Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy’ Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate …
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€9.49
Steven Pinker: Sense of Style
Bad writing can’t be blamed on the Internet, or on ‘the kids today’. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, …
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€9.49
Steven Pinker: Felvilágosodás most
Tényleg darabokra hullik a világ? A haladás eszméje idejétmúlt? A harmadik évezred emberi állapotának ebben az elegáns körüljárásában a kogníciókutató és közéleti értelmiségi Steven Pinker arra bizta …
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€11.53
Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works
‘A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear.’ —New York Review of Books
In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackle …
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€19.99
Matthew White: Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History
“An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes.”—New York Times Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in M …
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€48.99
Steven Pinker: El sentido del estilo
Más que nunca, la moneda de nuestra vida social y cultural es la palabra escrita, desde Twitter y mensajes de texto hasta blogs, libros electrónicos y libros analógicos. Pero la mayoría de las guías …
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€10.99
Steven Pinker: Mehr Rationalität
Nachdem Bestseller-Autor Steven Pinker die Aufklärung verteidigt hat, zeigt er nun in seinem neuen Buch die Bedeutung von Rationalität. Denn nur mit ihr kann man sich orientieren in einer Welt, die …
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€16.99
Steven Pinker: Rationality
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 ‘Punchy, funny and invigorating … Pinker is the high priest of rationalism’ Sunday Times ‘If you’ve ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read …
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€9.49
Steven Pinker: Learnability and Cognition
When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is …
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€89.57
Steven Pinker: Learnability and Cognition
A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human …
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€99.25
Kathleen Baynes & George R. Mangun: Cognitive Neuroscience of Mind
Leaders in the cognitive neurosciences address a variety of topics in the field and reflect on Michael Gazzaniga’s pioneering work and enduring influence.These essays on a range of topics in the …
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€56.29
Pinker Steven Pinker: Language Learnability and Language Development
In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning. Now reprinted with new commentary by the author, this classic work continues to be an …
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€31.73
