In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of exampl...

Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as divers...

Harold Klawans treated people with a huge array of troubles, all of which boiled down to one complaint: something was wrong with their brains. As a sympathetic and brilliant brain detective, Klawans deduced a great deal from his patients, not only ab...