In this classic, the world’s expert on language and brain lucidly explains all you always wanted to know about language: how it operates, how children find out it, how it changes, the way the brain computes it, and exactly how it evolved. With deft usage of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a powerful story: language can be a individual instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William Wayne Book Prize from your American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award in the Linguistics Society of America. This release includes an upgrade on advances in the science of language because the Language Instinct was first released. “Pinker writes with acidity verve.” -Atlantic Once a month “An exceptionally valuable book, very informative, and very well crafted.” -Noam Chomsky