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Also of interest ... in the wonders of language

The Stuff of Thought

by Steven Pinker (Viking, $30) Steven Pinker’s probing yet playful inquiries into the hidden structure of language can make a reader rethink everything philosophy has ever taught us about mind and matter, said William Saletan in The New York Times. Looked at another way, his sweeping theories about human nature might be merely the logical outgrowth of a language geek’s idiosyncratic love of verbs.

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