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"""A delightful informal survey...the best popular book yet in theis peculiar field""-Nature ""A fascinating and insightful look.""-R.C. Lewontin, Harvard University A provocative and entertaining exploration of the tricks our minds play on us every day Writing with all the wit and charm that have made his books bestsellers in Europe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini takes readers on an enthralling journey through the twists and turns of the human mind's cognitive illusions. MASSIMO PIATTELLI-PALMARINI, PhD, (Milan, Italy) is Director of the Department of Cognitive Science at the Institute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy, and a research associate of the Center for Cognitive Science at MIT."

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MASSIMO PIATTELLI-PALMARINI, Ph.D., is a Principal Research Associate of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Director of the Department of Cognitive Science at the Institute of San Raffaele in Milan, Italy. His books The Will to Study and the Italian edition of Inevitable Illusions were international bestsellers.

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