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Why do we laugh?
What makes memories fade?
Why do people believe in ghosts?

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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'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 'Witty popular science that you enjoy reading for the writing as well as for the science.' The New York Times 'How the Mind Works will change the way your mind works.' The Times

How the Mind Works Steven Pinker

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 2 April 2015
      ISBN-13 9780141980782
      978-0141980782
      ISBN-10 0141980788
      Also in:
      Non Fiction Health & Wellbeing Popular psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Why do we laugh?
      What makes memories fade?
      Why do people believe in ghosts?

      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.



      Trade Review
      '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 'Witty popular science that you enjoy reading for the writing as well as for the science.' The New York Times 'How the Mind Works will change the way your mind works.' The Times

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