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Below is the list of cognitive scientist and authorSteven Pinker.
I read it as a young adult, but its informative for old adults too.
Perhaps the best display of expository scientific prose of the 20th century.
It gave me the idea to try my hand at the genre in The Language Instinct.
A major inspiration for the discussions of evolution and sexuality in my own How the Mind Works.
A major influence on my own book The Blank Slate.
A moving, hilarious, and intellectually deep novel about religion and atheism.
Disclosure: I like this authors fiction so much that I married her.
Perhaps my favorite contemporary novel by someone Im not married to.
Its about a Holocaust survivor who ends up with three wives.
Every scene is a gold mine of insight about human nature.
), brush up on your history, and be stunned by the cruelty and stupidity of our species.
It was a useful source when I wrote The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
Perhaps the best analysis of writing style, and a major inspiration for my own The Sense of Style.
A major inspiration for Enlightenment Now.
No, the environment is not hopelessly despoiled and depauperate, says eco-modernist Stewart Brand.
