Morrow, David R.
Summary: Giving Reasons prepares students to think independently, evaluate information, and reason clearly across disciplines. Accessible to students and effective for instructors, it provides plain-English exercises, helpful appendices, and a variety of online supplements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2017
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Summary: Discusses how the concept of common sense is inadequate in an increasingly complex world and draws on multiple disciplines to offer insight into the sources of such topics as popularity, economics, and self-deception.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2011
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Summary: A primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than the mind can process--especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports, revealing the ways...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 153 LEVSummary: "The goal of the Dynamic Thinking Module is to teach kids about making choices and evaluating the benefits and consequences of their actions on an individual and global basis. Topics in this module include problem-solving, logic and reasoning, decision-making, and critical thinking. Life Skills Academy is designed to help kids gain the knowledge and mindset to promote both personal and academic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023
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Summary: "Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields - including economics, medicine, and politics - but until now, he has never brought together his many years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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Summary: As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us--political, social, religious--Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 JACLevitin, Daniel J
Summary: "It's raining bad data, half-truths, and fake news out there - and some of this nonsense is having devastation consequences. Daniel J. Levitin shows how corporate and government reports, statistics, and news stories can mislead, and reveals the way lying weasels use them. What makes lies dangerous is the certainty with which people are prone to believe them. Here is how to fix that."--Page 4 of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 LEVAriely, Dan.
Summary: An evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008