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Author : Michael Marshall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780515134278
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Straw Men written by Michael Marshall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of strange events leads a man to a confrontation with the deadly Straw Men.
Author : Paul Doherty
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1800321457
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Straw Men written by Paul Doherty and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the depravity and evil of man is found upon the stage. January, 1381. Guests of the Regent, John of Gaunt, Brother Athelstan and Sir John Cranston have been attending a mystery play performed by the Straw Men, Gaunt's personal acting troupe. The evening’s entertainment, however, is suddenly and brutally interrupted by the violent deaths of two of Gaunt's guests, their severed heads left on stage. The Regent orders Athelstan to find out who committed such a heinous act, leading him to tackle his most baffling and disturbing case yet... A taut and clever medieval murder mystery that won’t let go, perfect for fans of S G MacLean, S W Perry and Rory Clements.
Author : Gary Magnesen
Publisher : Mill City Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781936400362
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Straw Men written by Gary Magnesen and published by Mill City Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straw man (n) - one who "fronts" a casino for its real owners: the Mob. Straw Men (n) - A no-holds-barred memoir of true crime and justice, in which former agent Gary Magnesen boldly tells the story of how the FBI over-ran the Mob in Las Vegas.
Author : Peter Boghossian
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1939578159
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (395 download)
Download or read book A Manual for Creating Atheists written by Peter Boghossian and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith—and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, A Manual for Creating Atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith—but for talking them out of it. Peter Boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than 20 years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.
Author : Robert Gula
Publisher : Axios Press
ISBN 13 : 0975366262
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Nonsense written by Robert Gula and published by Axios Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course in nonmathematical logical thinking, especially important for students of philosophy and economics. A book of remarkable scholarship, Nonsense is unexpectedly relaxed, informal, and accessible.
Author : Jack Straw
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447222776
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Last Man Standing written by Jack Straw and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five children of divorced parents, he was bright enough to get a scholarship to a direct-grant school, but spent his holidays as a plumbers' mate for his uncles to bring in some much-needed extra income. Yet he spent 13 years and 11 days in government, including long and influential spells as Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. This is the story of how he got there. His memoirs offer a unique insight into the complex, sometimes self-serving but always fascinating world of British politics and reveals the toll that high office takes, but , more importantly, the enormous satisfaction and extraordinary privilege of serving both your constituents and your country. Straw’s has been a very public life, but he reveals the private face, too and offers readers a vivid and authoritative insight into the Blair/Brown era and, indeed, the last forty years of British politics.
Author : Randy Thornhill
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262700832
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of Rape written by Randy Thornhill and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-02-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape. In this controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other adaptations. Regardless of the answer, Thornhill and Palmer note, rape circumvents a central feature of women's reproductive strategy: mate choice. This is a primary reason why rape is devastating to its victims, especially young women. Thornhill and Palmer address, and claim to demolish scientifically, many myths about rape bred by social science theory over the past twenty-five years. The popular contention that rapists are not motivated by sexual desire is, they argue, scientifically inaccurate. Although they argue that rape is biological, Thornhill and Palmer do not view it as inevitable. Their recommendations for rape prevention include teaching young males not to rape, punishing rape more severely, and studying the effectiveness of "chemical castration." They also recommend that young women consider the biological causes of rape when making decisions about dress, appearance, and social activities. Rape could cease to exist, they argue, only in a society knowledgeable about its evolutionary causes. The book includes a useful summary of evolutionary theory and a comparison of evolutionary biology's and social science's explanations of human behavior. The authors argue for the greater explanatory power and practical usefulness of evolutionary biology. The book is sure to stir up discussion both on the specific topic of rape and on the larger issues of how we understand and influence human behavior.
Author : John Gray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466895756
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Straw Dogs written by John Gray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism think of humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth. John Gray argues that this belief in human difference is a dangerous illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. The result is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question our deepest-held beliefs. Will Self, in the New Statesman, called Straw Dogs his book of the year: "I read it once, I read it twice and took notes . . . I thought it that good." "Nothing will get you thinking as much as this brilliant book" (Sunday Telegraph).
Author : Cordelia Fine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393253880
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society written by Cordelia Fine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we’ve heard Testosterone rex’s last roar.” —Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy, Testosterone Rex disproves this ingrained myth and calls for a more equal society based on both sexes’ full human potential.
Author : J. R. Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780515145113
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Straw Men written by J. R. Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While trying to persuade the Navajo to stop their bloodthirsty raids, Clint Adams is taken captive and saved by a beautiful Indian woman who helps him find out who doublecrossed him. Original.
Author : Dan K. Thomasson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504985923
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Straw Men written by Dan K. Thomasson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fire at an upscale mountain resort area outside of Colorado Springs, leads ATFs Sam Tanner and DEAs Mike Reach on an investigation into the world of Mexican drug cartels, Chicago crack houses, and murder. Follow Tanner and Reach and their investigative team as they work to unravel the grand conspiracy being orchestrated by rogue army combat vets and their former street-gang brethren. Straw Men is the second in a series, following Rocky Mountain High, in which Tanner and his ATF and DEA colleagues work to infiltrate a tight-knit unit of gang members, narcotics traffickers, and the good citizens who supply them with guns.
Author : Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520393651
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Beyond Straw Men written by Phaedra C. Pezzullo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond “hot take” or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everyday people resist unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care.
Author : Scott Aikin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135028470X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Straw Man Arguments written by Scott Aikin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the attention it deserves as a rhetorical device. Scott Aikin and John Casey propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing distorted representations of one's critical interlocutor. To this end, the straw man comprises three dialectical forms, and not only the one that is usually suggested: the straw man, the weak man and the hollow man. Moreover, they demonstrate that straw manning is unique among fallacies as it has no particular logical form in itself, because it is an instance of inappropriate meta-argument, or argument about arguments. They discuss the importance of the onlooking audience to the successful deployment of the straw man, reasoning that the existence of an audience complicates the dialectical boundaries of argument. Providing a lively, provocative and thorough analysis of the straw man fallacy, this book will appeal to postgraduates and researchers alike, working in a range of fields including fallacies, rhetoric, argumentation theory and informal logic.
Author : Bo Bennett
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456607375
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Logically Fallacious written by Bo Bennett and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-02-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples and easy to understand descriptions, perfect for educators, debaters, or anyone who wants to improve his or her reasoning skills. "Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime." - Bo Bennett This 2021 Edition includes dozens of more logical fallacies with many updated examples.
Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547237766
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Straw Into Gold written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As they are pursued by greedy villains, two boys on a quest to save innocent lives meet the banished queen whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin eleven years earlier, and she provides much more than the answer they seek.
Author : Amalie Jahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991071326
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (713 download)
Download or read book A Straw Man written by Amalie Jahn and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could go back in time to save the person you love the most? Nate's funny. He's a football player. He's ridiculously handsome. In fact, it seems as if Melody's dating the perfect guy, until an unexpected tragedy changes everything about him. Based on her own family's experiences, Melody knows traveling in time to help him could have disastrous results - the tiniest alteration of the past can have huge repercussions on the future. But with careful planning, she's confident her trip will be a success. What she doesn't anticipate is that sometimes there are consequences which can never be foreseen and changes that can never be undone.
Author : Fredrick H. Thury
Publisher : Zero to Ten
ISBN 13 : 9781840893892
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (938 download)
Download or read book The Last Straw written by Fredrick H. Thury and published by Zero to Ten. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Hoshmakaka, a proud, old camel, who has been chosen to perform a very special task - he is to carry the wise men's gifts to the new baby king in Bethlehem. On his way he meets many people with gifts which are added to his load.
