title: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
author:  Steven Pinker 
description: "Engaging and provocative...filled with humor and fun."<br>-Douglas Hofstadter,<i> Los Angeles Times</i><br><br>"Pinker is a star, and the world of science is lucky to have him."<br>--Richard Dawkins<br><br>"Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."<br>-<i>New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>"An important and inviting book."<br>--<i>Science</i><br><br>"There's plenty of stuff to think about, but a lot of fun stuff too."<br>-<i>Boston Globe</i><br><br>"Fascinating."<br><i>Wired</i><br><br>"Unfailingly engaging to read."<br>--<i>New York Review of Books</i>
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  Praise for _The Stuff of Thought_ by Steven Pinker
  
  
  “Pinker brings an engaging and witty style to the study of subject matter
  that—were it not as important to us as it is complex—might otherwise be off-
  putting. . . . An inviting and important book. Everyone with an interest in
  language and how it gets to be how it is—that is, everyone interested in how
  we get to be human and do our human business—should read _The Stuff of
  Thought_.”
  
  
  —Robin Lakoff, _Science_
  
  
  “Packed with information, clear, witty, attractively written, and generally
  persuasive . . . [Pinker] is unfailingly engaging to read, with his aptly
  chosen cartoons, his amusing examples, and his bracing theoretical rigor.”
  
  
  —Colin McGinn, _The New York Review of Books_
  
  
  “Engaging and provocative . . . filled with humor and fun. It’s good to have a
  mind as lively and limpid as his bringing the ideas of cognitive science to
  the public while clarifying them for his scientific colleagues.”
  
  
  —Douglas Hofst