Ive found this holds not just for immaculately written books but even for easy reads eg. If I could recommend just one book for anyone to pick up that was it.
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So begins Charles Murrays unique account of human excellence from the age.
. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research teaching and books he has been named one of Times 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policys 100 Global Thinkers. It really does make consuming a book much much easier. Human Accomplishment is about those great things falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences and the people who did them.
In The Blank Slate Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral emotional and political coloringsHe shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas. The Blank Slate the mind has no innate traits the Noble Savage people are born good and corrupted by society and the Ghost in the Machine each of. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Pinker uses meticulous research to argue that we are living in the most peaceful time in. At irregular times and in scattered settings human beings have achieved great things. Listening during commutechores is a huge plus.
For years Ive been saying Steven Pinkers The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book Id read in a decade. A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzuns From Dawn to Decadence. Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
But also I cant help but feel that listening to books is far less engaging rewarding than reading them.
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