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How Doctors Think
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Jerome Groopman
A "New Yorker" staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments--or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
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Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility
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Foster Cline, Jim Fay
This well-known child psychiatrist has written a book to help parents raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the world by teaching them responsibility and the logic of life by giving them the opportunity to solve their own problems from the earliest possible age.
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Douglas R Hofstadter
G(del, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prizewinning treatise exploring patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt G(del, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A groundbreaking book that has set the standard for interdisciplinary writing. A book every thinking reader must have.. Douglas Hofstadters book is concerned ...
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A Concise Introduction to Logic
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Patrick J Hurley
This text covers all of the standard topics for any introductory logic course. The material is integrated in such a way that elements fit together as in a puzzle so students can assemble a broad picture of the subject. Visual aids and colour are used to reinforce key points and concepts. Additionally, key terms are boldfaced, many examples serve ...
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A Rulebook for Arguments
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Anthony Weston
Updated examples, streamlined text, and the chapter on definition reworked in a rule-based format strengthen this already strong volume. Readers familiar with the previous edition will find a text that retains all the features that make Rulebook ideally suited for use as a supplementary course book -- including its modest price and compact size. ...
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Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
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Jim Fay, David Funk
Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximise classroom learning time. Discover why Love and Logic works in the school environment and understand the psychological reasons for its ...
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Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel Kant
Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materialists believed that the world (including its human component) consisted of objective matter, an irreducible substance to which qualities and characteristics could be attributed. Mind-thoughts, ideas, and ...
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Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings
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Barnet
Two books in one: the first, a concise text that introduces students to classic and contemporary approaches to argument; the second, a comprehensive reader of 132 selections with two anthologies -- a longer one built around 13 contemporary controversial topics and a shorter one addressing three classic philosophical questions.
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Critical Thinking
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Brooke Noel Moore
This on-line learning tool includes a list of learning objectives for each chapter; exercises, quizzes, and review quizzes (auto-graded) for each chapter; a glossary with links to relevant Web sites; tutorials for each chapter; and a critical thinking diagnostic test. Required reading for more than 250,000 students since the publication of the ...
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Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
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Kenneth H Rosen
Discrete Mathematics and its Applications is a focused introduction to the primary themes in a discrete mathematics course, as introduced through extensive applications, expansive discussion, and detailed exercise sets. These themes include mathematical reasoning, combinatorial analysis, discrete structures, algorithmic thinking, and enhanced ...
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How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day
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Gerry L Spence
This work teaches you to make a winning argument in the boardroom, in the bedroom, at home or in the office, with your spouse, with your children, with your friends and and with your relations. The author's view is that argument is an art form, a technique which can be learnt, to give you advantage over your opponent and to persuade them that ...
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Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood
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Jim Fay, Charles Fay, PH.D., Adryan Russ (Editor)
Parenting little ones can be exhausting...until you discover Love and Logic. Take the exhaustion out and put the fun into parenting your little one. If you want help with: Potty training; Temper tantrums; Bedtime; Whining; time-out or hassle-free mornings and many other everyday challenges then this book is for you! The book is the tool parents of ...
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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
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Tim Harford
In this deftly reasoned book, a columnist for "The Financial Times" and "Slate" argues that, despite the everyday insanity, life is logical after all, and he explores the surprisingly rational choices that shape the world.
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Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood
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Foster W Cline, M.D., Jim Fay
A unique approach to dealing with the turmoil of adolescence that recognizes that teens learn best when they're allowed to make choices and learn from the consequences. The trick is in setting up choices so the consequences are constructive.
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Introduction to logic
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Irving M. Copi
Dedicated to the memory of Irving M. Copi, the twelfth edition of Introduction to Logic retains its breadth of coverage, while breaking new ground with a compelling new design and inclusion of new pedagogic features to help students in their study of logic. This new edition goes further than any previous edition-or competing logic text-in ...
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My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
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Martin Gardner
Noted expert selects 70 "short" puzzles. The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and 67 more. Solutions included.
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Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders
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Jamie Whyte
This is a witty assault on lame rhetoric, specious logic, and official BS. Here's a fast-paced, ruthlessly funny romp through the mulligan stew of illogic, unreason, and just plain drivel served up daily in the media by pundits, psychics, ad agencies, New Age gurus, statisticians, free trade ideologues, business "thinkers," and, of course, ...
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Language, Truth and Logic
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Alfred Jules Ayer
If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he ...
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Tractatus logico-philosophicus
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, ...
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The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 Playthinks of Art, Mathematics & Science
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Ivan Moscovich, Ian Stewart
About the original 1000 Playthinks, Will Shortz of the "New York Times" said it best: "The most wide ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd's "Cyclopedia of Puzzles" almost a century ago." Now comes the same great Playthinks, but in a package that makes it an amazing value: "The Big Book of ...
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Discrete Mathematics
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Richard Johnsonbaugh
This best-selling book provides an accessible introduction to discretemathematics through an algorithmic approach that focuses on problem-solving techniques. This edition has the techniques of proofs woven into the text as a running theme and each chapter has the problem-solving corner. The text provides complete coverage of: Logic and Proofs; ...
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Six thinking hats
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Edward de Bono
"The main difficulty of thinking is confusion. We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls". The solution? Edward de Bono unscrambles the decision-making process with his "six thinking hats": White Hat: white is neutral and objective, concerned with ...
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Digital fundamentals
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Thomas L Floyd
For mid-level courses in Digital Circuits (also called Digital Fundamentals or Digital Systems).Reflecting 20 years' combined experience in engineering industry and in the classroom, this bestseller provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of digital fundamentals--from basic concepts to microprocessors. Floyd's acclaimed emphasis on applications ...
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You Gotta Be Kidding!: The Wacky Book of Mind-Boggling Questions
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Randy Horn, Stephanie Ring, Marissa Fierz
Would you rather have super-greasy hair or a constant drooling problem? Would you rather have to eat a steak covered with bogies or a bowl of pasta topped with worms? Would you rather be hit by lightning or bitten by a shark? These are the sorts of scary, gross, and embarrassing dilemmas - all from the twisted and bizarre mind that brought us ...
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Digital Systems: Principles and Applications
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Ronald J Tocci
For Freshman or Introductory courses in Engineering and Computer Science. ESource-Prentice Hall's Engineering Source-provides a comprehensive, customizable introductory engineering and computing library. Featuring over 25 modules and growing, ESource allows professors to fully customize their textbooks through the ESource website. Professors are ...
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