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Spare, warm, cool and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Steven Pinker, José C. Vales
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Capitán Swing, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525427926
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Steven Arthur "Steve" Pinker is a Canadian-born American cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
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