Topic: Steven Pinker
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Bestselling books the week of 10/20/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Fall books: 20 nonfiction titles you don't want to miss
From the energy crisis to The Doors, from Hitler’s Germany to Rin Tin Tin, here are the nonfiction titles that have readers buzzing this fall.
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Love impels progress
A Christian Science perspective.
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Flying to center field with the boys of autumn
A newspaper account of a 14-inning ball game makes a point about irregular verbs.
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Readers Write: Homeownership isn't all bad – or good; EU is a model for peace
Letters to the Editor for the weekly issue of January 30, 2011: One reader takes issue with an op-ed's reasoning on why Americans should rent, not buy. Another points out that the global reduction in war is largely attributable to the union of previous enemies in Europe.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that, as a society, we are on a "retreat from violence."
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Bestselling books the week of 10/20/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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The Monitor's View: Euro heroes in Germany?
German lawmakers vote Thursday on a further rescue of Greece in this euro crisis. They should take the long view on history's lesson of sacrificing for the greater good.
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Fall books: 20 nonfiction titles you don't want to miss
From the energy crisis to The Doors, from Hitler’s Germany to Rin Tin Tin, here are the nonfiction titles that have readers buzzing this fall.
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Chapter & Verse
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: secular humanist with a soulPhilosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a humanist whose life and work have been shaped by religion.
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The Best American Essays 2010
The essays in this year's anthology – edited by Christopher Hitchens – are both varied and bold.
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Are iPads, smartphones, and the Mobile Web rewiring the way we think?
Multitasking on smartphones, iPads, and the Mobile Web makes some feel smarter and others just more scattered. Is it changing how we think?
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Hamlet’s BlackBerry
Mining Plato, Shakespeare, and Thoreau for tips on better living in the digital age.
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Weathering the Olympics: how science and sport meet on the bottom of a ski
Rain and slush are testing Olympic skiers as well as their technical gurus, whose choices of skis and wax can help make the difference between gold and anonymity.
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Dispute Finder: Making the call on Web ‘facts’
New software sorts out the consensus from the contentious.
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Roberts, Obama, and the myth of the 'split verb'
An errant adverb on the Capitol steps makes news
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