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Author : Robert Henry Thouless
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Straight and Crooked Thinking written by Robert Henry Thouless and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ken Binmore
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030395472
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Crooked Thinking or Straight Talk? written by Ken Binmore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why can't we think straight about the big issues that face our society? Why are we taken in by the phony arguments of populists and scammers? Where are the philosophers hiding when we need them to tell us what makes sense? They are hiding because they have nothing to say. The airy-fairy answers offered by writers of footnotes to Plato were wrong two thousand years ago, and they are still wrong now. All this time, we should have been listening to a different but equally venerable branch of matter-of-fact philosophy pioneered by the much-maligned philosopher Epicurus. His ideas were suppressed in ancient times as heretical, but the development of the theory of games and decisions makes it timely for those of us who care about science to revive his style of thinking–not just about the world around us but about ourselves as well. The price of transferring our allegiance to Epicurus and his modern followers is that we can no longer enjoy the luxury of being told what we want to hear. It would be nice if we were really equipped with a hotline to a metaphysical world of transcendental ideals, but the truth is that we are just the flotsam left behind on the beach when the evolutionary tide went out, and we have to get real about what will and will not work for our imperfect species before it is too late. This book is an attempt to point the way. It has no equations and very little jargon; nor does it pull any punches, either in explaining how game theory works or in exposing the follies of famous metaphysicians.
Author : Gary DeMar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780915815395
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Thinking Straight in a Crooked World written by Gary DeMar and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nursery rhyme "There was a Crooked Man" is an appropriate description of how sin affects us and our world. We live in a crooked world of ideas evaluated by crooked people. Left to our crooked nature, we can never fully understand what God has planned for us and His world. God has not left us without a corrective solution. He has given us a reliable reference point -- the Bible -- so we can identify the crookedness and straighten it. Gary DeMar shows the power of biblical thinking and the desperate need of it in the church. He defines what a biblical worldview is and demonstrates how to acquire and practice it. - Publisher.
Author : Robert H. Thouless
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521081498
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (814 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion written by Robert H. Thouless and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-01-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this successful book, which applies the science of psychology to problems of religion. Dr Thouless explores such questions as: why do people believe? Why are their beliefs often held with irrational strength? How are changes in belief systems related to mental health? What are reasonable attitudes towards alternative belief systems? This edition includes samples of the experimental and statistical studies of religious problems, including the author's own study of the strength of religious beliefs. This edition also pays more attention to the problems of non-Christian religious systems, with special consideration given to the problems of mutual toleration. Finally Dr Thouless considers whether it is reasonable for modern man to adhere to any religious belief system. This is an excellent textbook for students of the social sciences, particularly psychology and theology, and will also interest the general reader who has an intellectual curiosity about religion.
Author : Michael A. Gilbert
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 162045906X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book How to Win an Argument written by Michael A. Gilbert and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996-01-12 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven techniques for getting your point across and winning arguments If you've ever felt the frustration of losing an argument--even when you knew you were right--to someone more skilled in pressing their point (and your hot buttons), this book is for you. This practical, often amusing guide gives you the tools you need to make your point clearly in any disagreement, from a formal debate to a roaring shouting match. You'll find: Strategies for identifying--and avoiding--the common traps your opponents may set for you Sample arguments spotlighting current issues with notes that analyze both weak and strong techniques Interactive quizzes that help reinforce your new skills and build confidence "Insightful, instructive, and enjoyable to read." --Publishers Weekly
Author : Normand Baillargeon
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609800044
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense written by Normand Baillargeon and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon of everyday politics and news reporting in order to decide for themselves what is at stake and how to ask the necessary questions to protect themselves from the manipulations of the government and the media. Whether the issue be the call to what we’re told will be a bloodless war, the "debate" around Intelligent Design, or the meaning of a military expenditure, Baillargeon teaches readers to evaluate information and sort fact from official and media spin.
Author : Patrick Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780192892805
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Logic and Its Limits written by Patrick Shaw and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common-sense introduction to the everyday use of logic, this book explains some of the rules of good argument and some of the ways in which arguments can fail, drawing illustrations from a variety of contemporary and international sources. A wide range of thought-provoking examples and exercises make this a readable and stimulating guide for the student and general reader alike. Diagrams.
Author : David Chalmers
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408228
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book And the Crooked Places Made Straight written by David Chalmers and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Chalmers's widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a growing challenge to traditional values and arrangements. Chalmers recounts the judicial revolution that set national standards for race, politics, policing, and privacy. He examines the long, losing war on poverty and the struggle between the media and the government over the war in Vietnam. He follows feminism's "second wave" and the emergence of the environmental, consumer, and citizen action movements. He also explores the worlds of rock, sex, and drugs, and the entwining of the youth culture, the counterculture, and the American marketplace. This newly revised edition covers the conservative counter-revolution and cultural wars. It carries the legacy of the 1960s forward: from Tom Hayden's idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract with America" and Grover Norquist's twenty-first century "Tax Payer's Protection Pledge." -- David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize'
Author : Austin Grossman
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316198501
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Crooked written by Austin Grossman and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning novelist Austin Grossman reimagines the Cold War as an epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero: Richard Nixon. Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career spanned the button-down fifties, the Mad Men sixties, and the turbulent seventies. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. The man went from political mastermind to a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning question: how could he have lost it all? Here for the first time is the tale told in his own words: the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the truth behind the Cold War, and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up. What if our nation's worst president was actually a pivotal figure caught in a desperate struggle between ordinary life and horrors from another reality? What if the man we call our worst president was, in truth, our greatest? In Crooked, Nixon finally reveals the secret history of modern American politics as only Austin Grossman could reimagine it. Combining Lovecraftian suspense, international intrigue, Russian honey traps, and a presidential marriage whose secrets and battles of attrition were their own heroic saga, Grossman's novel is a masterwork of alternative history, equal parts mesmerizing character study and nail-biting Faustian thriller.
Author : Robert Henry Thouless
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 9781444117189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Straight and Crooked Thinking written by Robert Henry Thouless and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of a timeless classic demonstrates how the use of clear, rational thinking and logic can win any argument, however emotionally charged the topic in question. It describes the typical flaws of reasoning in argument and shows how language can be used to deceive - and how to avoid being deceived. It will show you how, by learning what is 'straight', rational language, and clear thought, you can disentangle emotionally charged rhetoric and hold your own in any argument or debate, no matter how challenging. Although written nearly 80 years ago, this book proves that certain principles remain timeless; it has shown many thousands over the decades how to cope with media spin and distorted reasoning - and now it will do the same for you.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062915819
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times’ Books to Watch for Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated Books Newsweek’s Most Anticipated Books Forbes.com’s Most Anticipated Books E!’s Top Books to Read Glamour’s Best Books Essence’s Best Books by Black Authors In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
Author : Robert Henry Thouless
Publisher : Teach Yourself
ISBN 13 : 1444134140
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Straight and Crooked Thinking written by Robert Henry Thouless and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of a timeless classic demonstrates how the use of clear, rational thinking and logic can win any argument, however emotionally charged the topic in question. It describes the typical flaws of reasoning in argument and shows how language can be used to deceive - and how to avoid being deceived. It will show you how, by learning what is 'straight', rational language, and clear thought, you can disentangle emotionally charged rhetoric and hold your own in any argument or debate, no matter how challenging. Although written nearly 80 years ago, this book proves that certain principles remain timeless; it has shown many thousands over the decades how to cope with media spin and distorted reasoning - and now it will do the same for you.
Author : Sean Williams
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1591028086
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Crooked Letter written by Sean Williams and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When mirror twins Seth and Hadrian Castillo travel to Europe on holidays, they don’t expect the end of the world to follow them. Seth’s murder, however, puts exactly that into motion. From opposite sides of death, the Castillo twins grapple with a reality neither of them suspected, although it has been encoded in myths and legends for millennia. The Earth we know is just one of many "realms", three of which are inhabited by humans during various stages of their lives. And their afterlives... In the tradition of Philip Pullman and Ursula K. Le Guin and inspired by numerous arcane sources, the Books of the Cataclysm begin in the present world but soon propel the reader to a landscape that is simultaneously familiar and fantastic.
Author : Cullen Bunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954255661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Crooked Hills written by Cullen Bunn and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crooked Hills is the most haunted town in America. It's just the news that Charlie needs to salvage his forced vacation to the middle of nowhere. If he's got to take a family trip to visit relatives, at least he'll see some ghosts. But the hauntings in Crooked Hills aren't the friendly kind, and soon Charlie, his brother Alex, their cousin Marty, and their new friend Lisa are surrounded by dangers: hellhounds, dead witches, strange dreams-- and local bullies. Crooked Hills is far more exciting than Charlie expected, but it's a lot scarier, too... For young fans of Stranger Things and Paper Girls, this brand new edition of Bunn's middle grade series starter launches readers into an earlier era of unsupervised adventures, childhood independence, and magical shenanigans. Get ready to uncover the first mystery of Crooked Hills...
Author : Tom Franklin
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062048740
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter written by Tom Franklin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling….A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind.” —David Wroblewski A powerful and resonant novel from the critically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. An extraordinary novel that seamlessly blends elements of crime and Southern literary fiction, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a must for readers of Larry Brown, Pete Dexter, Ron Rash, and Dennis Lehane. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county—and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004359478
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Rationality and Decision Making written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume Rationality and Decision Making: From Normative Rules to Heuristics analyses rational and irrational decision making by individuals as well as by groups. The contributors adopt methodological, logical, linguistic, psychological, historical, and evolutionary perspectives.
Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743298853
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Book of Lost Things written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.
