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The Art of Reasoning
by David Kelley

ISBN 0393972135 (0-393-97213-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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An inviting alternative to traditional texts in introductory logic, The Art of Reasoning is widely acclaimed for its conversational tone and accessible exposition of rigorous logical concepts.
The Third Edition has been meticulously updated and continues the successful pedagogical approach of the two previous editions, guiding students through the fundamental elements of formal deductive logic, classification and definition, fallacies, basic argument analysis, inductive generalization, statistical reasoning, and explanation. [via]
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Art of War
by Chih Tsai Chung

ISBN 9971985608 (9971-985-60-8)
Softcover, China Books & Periodicals

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Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking
by M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley

ISBN 0130891347 (0-13-089134-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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For all level Critical Thinking, Argumentative Writing, and Informal Logic courses. This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject. [via]
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Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking
by Stuart M. Keeley, Neil Browne

ISBN 0132203049 (0-13-220304-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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The habits and attitudes associated with critical thinking are transferable to consumer, medical, legal, and general ethical choices. When our surgeon says surgery is needed, it can be life sustaining to seek answers to the critical questions encouraged in Asking the Right Questions This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysing the things we are told and read. It gives strategies for responding to alternative points of view and will help readers develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject. [via]
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Attacking Faulty Reasoning
by T. Edward Damer

ISBN 0534076149 (0-534-07614-9)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co

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Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-free Arguments
by T. Edward Damer

ISBN 0495199354 (0-495-19935-4)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co

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Not only is ATTACKING FAULTY REASONING the most comprehensive, readable, and theoretically sound book on the common fallacies, it is also a well-designed primer for the construction and evaluation of arguments. Addressing over 60 fallacies and featuring a wealth of timely examples and exercises, this text will help students hone their skills in rational, argumentative discussion. [via]
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Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
by Philip C. Plait

ISBN 0471409766 (0-471-40976-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Beyond Feelings: A Guide to Critical Thinking
by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero

ISBN 007282896X (0-07-282896-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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Building Thinking Skills: Book 1
by Howard Black

ISBN 0894552503 (0-89455-250-3)
Softcover, Critical Thinking Co

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Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included, however, a separate Instruction/Answer Guide is also available but is not required. The optional teaching guide includes objectives and focus questions that reinforce analytical skills. See components sold separately above for ordering information about the separate, optional Instruction/Answer Guide. [via]
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Building Thinking Skills: Primary
by Ron Edwards, Warren Hill

ISBN 0894553321 (0-89455-332-1)
Softcover, Bright Minds Llc

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Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders
by jamie whyte

ISBN 0071446435 (0-07-144643-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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Uncover the truth under all the BS

In the daily battle for our hearts and minds--not to mention our hard-earned cash--the truth is usually the first casualty. It's time we learned how to see through the rhetoric, faulty reasoning, and misinformation that we're subjected to from morning to night by talk-radio hosts, op-ed columnists, advertisers, self-help gurus, business "thinkers," and, of course, politicians. And no one is better equipped to show us how than award-winning philosopher Jamie Whyte.

In Crimes Against Logic Whyte take us on a fast-paced, ruthlessly funny romp through the mulligan stew of can, folderol, and bogus logic served up in the media, at the office, and even in your own home. Applying his laserlike wit to dozens of timely examples, Whyte cuts through the haze of facts, figures, and double-talk and gets at the real truth behind what they're telling us.

"An incisive philosopher."
--Sunday Telegraph [via]
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Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict
by Bruce N. Waller

ISBN 0131896660 (0-13-189666-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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De Bono's Thinking Course
by Edward De Bono, British Broadcasting Corporation

ISBN 0563165006 (0-563-16500-6)
Softcover, British Broadcasting Corp

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Transform your thinking! Is the way you think like the colour of your eyes - something you are born with and cannot alter? Or is thinking a skill that can be improved with practice, like swimming, tennis or cooking? In this practical book, Edward de Bono lays out some simple but powerful tools with which we can optimise our thinking, decision making and problem solving. Most of the errors of thinking are errors of perception and that is precisely where these tools help. It helps you learn: how to enhance your thinking processes by developing your perception; how to make the most of your thinking skills and how thinking differs from intelligence; and how to make decisions, and deal with emotions and values whilst focusing on the future. Edward de Bono, the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking' is widely believed to be the world's leading authority on the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He is the author of over 60 books and his methods are widely used in many countries. He advises multinational corporations and also works with education bodies to enable us to maximise our thinking abilities. [via]
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan

ISBN 0345409469 (0-345-40946-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues. [via]
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Ethics Of Health Care: A Guide For Clinical Practice
by Raymond S. Edge, John Randall Groves

ISBN 1401861830 (1-4018-6183-0)
Softcover, Delmar Pub

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Ethics of health care: a guide for clinical practice, 3e is designed to guide health care students and practitioners through a wide variety of areas involving ethical controversies. It provides a background in value development and ethical theories, including numerous real-life examples to stimulate discussion and thought [via]
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Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally
by Robyn Dawes

ISBN 0813340268 (0-8133-4026-8)
Softcover, Westview Pr

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Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Such beliefs are unfortunately common. Witness two examples: the belief that child sexual abuse can be diagnosed by observing symptoms typically resulting from such abuse, rather than symptoms that differentiate between abused and non-abused children; and the belief that a physical or personal disaster can be understood by studying it alone in-depth rather than by comparing the situation in which it occurred to similar situations where nothing bad happened. This book first demonstrates how such irrationality results from ignoring obvious comparisons. Such neglect is traced to associational and story-based thinking, while true rational judgment requires comparative thinking. Strong emotion--or even insanity--is one reason for making automatic associations without comparison, but as the author demonstrates, a lot of everyday judgment, unsupported professional claims, and even social policy is based on the same kind of irrationality.
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Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
by David Hackett Fischer

ISBN 0061315451 (0-06-131545-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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"If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in respect....The wisdom is expressed with a certin ruthlessness. Scarcly a major historian escapes unscathed. Ten thousand members of the AmericanHistorical Association will rush to the index and breathe a little easier to find their names absent. [via]
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How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World
by Francis Wheen

ISBN 158648348X (1-58648-348-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.

What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.

In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
by Francis Wheen

ISBN 0007140967 (0-00-714096-7)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate

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How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
by Theodore Schick, Lewis Vaughn

ISBN 1559342544 (1-55934-254-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College

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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by Thomas Gilovich

ISBN 0029117062 (0-02-911706-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense
by Francis Wheen

ISBN 1586482475 (1-58648-247-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group

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In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.

What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.

In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.
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Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds
by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

ISBN 047115962X (0-471-15962-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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"Fascinating and insightful. . . . I cannot recall a book that has made me think more about the nature of thinking." -- Richard C. Lewontin

Harvard University

Everyone knows that optical illusions trick us because of the way we see. Now scientists have discovered that cognitive illusions, a set of biases deeply embedded in the human mind, can actually distort the way we think.

In Inevitable Illusions, distinguished cognitive researcher Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini takes us on a provocative, challenging, and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the games our minds play. He opens the doors onto the newly charted realm of the cognitive unconscious to reveal the full range of illusions, showing how they inhibit our ability to reason--no matter what our educational background or IQ. Inevitable Illusions is stimulating, eye-opening food for thought. [via]
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Informal Logic
by Irving M. Copi, Keith Burgess-Jackson

ISBN 0132290480 (0-13-229048-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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The aim of Informal Logic, Third Edition is to cultivate readers' basic critical, analytical and reasoning skills through the examination of arguments and explanations as they appear in natural language. Unlike traditional logic texts, which are densely laden with symbols and jargon, this book is written in plain English to the utmost extent possible.
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Introduction to Logic
by Irving M. Copi, Carl Cohen

ISBN 0131898345 (0-13-189834-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall

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Easy-to-read, visually appealing, and chock full of real-world applications, this most complete and authoritative book on introductory logic fully prepares users to understand, recognize, and apply classical syllogistic logic and the more powerful techniques of modern symbolic logicexplaining all concepts and techniques clearly, accurately, and thoroughly, and bringing them to life using a wealth of real-life examples of lively arguments and explanations drawn from a wide variety of sources to help demonstrate the application of logical principles by serious writers and thinkers trying to solve real problems in a wide range of fields. Includes full chapters on basic logical concepts, the uses of language, definitions, fallacies, categorical propositions, categorical syllogisms, arguments in ordinary language, symbolic logic, methods of deduction, quantification theory, analogy and probable inference, Mill's Methods of experimental inquiry, science and hypothesis, and probability. Reformulates key logical issues, and presents a more detailed account of the concept of logical equivalence, distinguishing it more clearly from the truth-functional connectives. Includes sidebars containing additional, enriching information; many new illustrations taken from contemporary research I the physical and biological science; and a plethora of exercises. For anyone searching for a top-notch, easy-to-understand introduction to logic. [via]
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Land of Volcanic Ash: A Play in Two Parts
by David G. Goodman, Kubo Sakae

ISBN 0939657406 (0-939657-40-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ East Asia Program

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Logic And Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use Of Reason In Everyday Life
by Howard Kahane, Nancy Cavender

ISBN 0534535844 (0-534-53584-4)
Softcover, Cengage Learning

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This text introduces students to good reasoning by using current examples from television, newspapers, magazines, advertisements and political institutions, with the aim of bringing the concepts alive for students and putting them into a context that they will retain and use. [via]
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Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric With Infotrac: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
by Howard Kahane, Nancy Cavender

ISBN 053453578X (0-534-53578-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning

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A Rulebook for Arguments
by Anthony Weston

ISBN 0872205525 (0-87220-552-5)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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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. Unlike most textbooks on argumentative writing, Rulebook is organised around specific rules, illustrated and explained soundly and briefly. It is not a textbook, but a rulebook, whose goal is to help students get on with writing a paper or assessing an argument. [via]
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ISBN 9780023249808 (0-02-324980-3, 0023249803)

by Irving M. Copi

ISBN 0023249803 (0-02-324980-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan Coll Div

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For courses in Formal Logic. The general approach of this book to logic remains the same as in earlier editions. Following Aristotle, we regard logic from two different points of view: on the one hand, logic is an instrument or organon for appraising the correctness of reasoning; on the other hand, the principles and methods of logic used as organon are interesting and important topics to be themselves systematically investigated.

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The Thinker's Toolkit: Fourteen Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving
by Morgan D. Jones

ISBN 0812928083 (0-8129-2808-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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An invaluable resource for any manager or professional, this book offers a collection of proven, practical methods for simplifying any problem and making faster, better decisions every time.

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The Thinker's Toolkit: Fourteen Skills for Making Smarter Decisions in Business and in Life
by Morgan D. Jones, Karl Weber

ISBN 0812926013 (0-8129-2601-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Thinking from A to Z
by Nigel Warburton

ISBN 0415096863 (0-415-09686-3)
Softcover, Routledge

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Why People Believe Weird Things
by Michael Shermer

ISBN 1567313590 (1-56731-359-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer

ISBN 0805070893 (0-8050-7089-3)
Softcover, Owl Books

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Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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El Arte de la Guerra / The Art of War
by Sun-Tzu

ISBN 9875503703 (987-550-370-3)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.

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La versión de Thomas Cleary, de El Arte de la Guerra, libro de ds mil años de antiguedad, saca a la luz uno de los mas importantes textos clásicos chinos. En el que, a pesar del tiempo transcurrido, ninguna de sus máximas ha quedado anticuada. [via]
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Destejiendo El Arco Iris
by Richard Dawkins

ISBN 8483106698 (84-8310-669-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Desde la astronomia y la genetica hasta el lenguaje y la realidad virtual, Richard Dawkins nos demuestra -y nos convence con ejemplos irreprochables- que la ciencia tambien entrana belleza; y que el descubrimiento de los mecanismos que rigen los fenomenos naturales no solo no destruye su poesia sino que la ensalza, revelandonos aspectos sorprendentes que de ninguna otra manera podriamos apreciar o imaginar. Con un enorme caudal de citas poeticas, Destejiendo el arco iris sugiere que puede aprenderse mucho de los poetas, que la ciencia deberia saber recurrir a imagenes y metaforas inspiradoras que facilitarian una comprension profunda y una investigacion fertil. / Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. Bestselling author, Dawkins takes up important topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder. [via]
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L'illusione Di Sapere: Che Cosa Si Nasconde Dietro I Nostri Errori
by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

ISBN 8804361697 (88-04-36169-7)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori

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