How the Mind Works

non-fiction work by Steven Pinker
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How the Mind Works

Summary

How the Mind Works is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • How the Mind Works authored Steven Pinker[3].
  • How the Mind Works's instance of is recorded as written work[4].
  • How the Mind Works's publisher is recorded as W. W. Norton & Company[5].
  • How the Mind Works's genre is recorded as non-fiction[6].
  • How the Mind Works's follows is recorded as The Language Instinct[7].
  • How the Mind Works's followed by is recorded as Words and Rules[8].
  • How the Mind Works's OCLC number is recorded as 36379708[9].
  • How the Mind Works's country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • How the Mind Works's publication date is recorded as +1997-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • How the Mind Works's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05fzwy[12].
  • How the Mind Works's Open Library ID is recorded as OL15837067W[13].
  • How the Mind Works's has edition or translation is recorded as How the Mind Works[14].
  • How the Mind Works's main subject is recorded as cognitive science[15].
  • How the Mind Works's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 12233[16].
  • How the Mind Works's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/How-the-Mind-Works[17].
  • How the Mind Works's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'How the Mind Works'}[18].
  • How the Mind Works's OCLC work ID is recorded as 537006[19].
  • How the Mind Works's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 2085667[20].

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Designation and Status

How the Mind Works's instance of is recorded as written work[4].

Why It Matters

How the Mind Works ranks in the top 7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

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  11. [13] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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