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The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning
The Fallacy Detective is a clear, engaging introduction to the most common errors in reasoning. Through 38 short lessons, the Bluedorn brothers teach readers how to spot fallacies such as red herrings, ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, circular reasoning, loaded questions, weak analogies, hasty generalizations, and propaganda techniques.
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- 4th Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780974531571
- Collation
- 264 pages, 6.5 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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- Call Number
- 160
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
The War of Art is Steven Pressfield’s influential guide to understanding and overcoming the invisible force he calls Resistance—the internal barrier that stops people from writing, painting, studying, innovating, or pursuing any meaningful creative or personal goal.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781936891023
- Collation
- 190 pages, 5 x 0.48 x 8 inches
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- Call Number
- 158.1 PRE t
The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals…
The Book of Minds offers a bold, integrative framework for understanding what a “mind” can be. Philip Ball draws on research from zoology, neuroscience, computer science, astrobiology, and philosophy to explore how minds arise, how they function, and how we might recognize minds radically different from our own.
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- 1st Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780226795874
- Collation
- 512 pages, 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
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- -
- Call Number
- 128.2 BAL t
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
Stolen Focus investigates why so many people today struggle to concentrate—and argues that the problem is not personal weakness but a system designed to fragment our attention. Drawing on interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, Silicon Valley insiders, educators, and social critics, Johann Hari identifies twelve major forces that erode our ability to focus, from digital distraction an…
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526620217
- Collation
- 340 pages, 5.12 x 0.91 x 7.8 inches
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- -
- Call Number
- 153.733 HAR s
How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
How to Grow a Human blends cutting‑edge science with deep philosophical reflection to explore what it means to be human in an age when cells can be reprogrammed, bodies can be engineered, and aspects of consciousness might one day be digitized. After witnessing his own cells being used to grow clusters of neurons—“mini‑brains”—Philip Ball begins a journey into the nature of identity…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780008331818
- Collation
- 384 pages, 12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 155.2 BAL h
The Origins of Creativity
The Origins of Creativity is Edward O. Wilson’s sweeping investigation into why humans create—and how creativity became the defining trait of our species. Drawing on fields as diverse as paleontology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and the humanities, Wilson argues that creativity emerged more than 100,000 years ago, far earlier than commonly believed. He traces its development from ea…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780141986340
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- 256 pages, 5.12 x 0.63 x 7.76 inches
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- Call Number
- 153.35 WIL t
Educating Intuition
Educating Intuition explores how intuitive judgments—those quick, seemingly effortless decisions we make every day—actually arise from tacit learning, accumulated experience, and the structure of our environments. Drawing on research from cognitive psychology, behavioral science, and his own empirical studies, Robin M. Hogarth argues that intuition is not mysterious or magical but a trainab…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780226348629
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- -
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- -
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- 153.44 HOG e
Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
Upheavals of Thought is Martha C. Nussbaum’s sweeping, interdisciplinary exploration of the nature and value of human emotions. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, anthropology, music, and literature, Nussbaum argues that emotions are not irrational forces but intelligent appraisals—judgments about what we care about most deeply.
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- 1st Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780521531825
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- -
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- 128.37 NUS u
On Truth
On Truth explores one of philosophy’s oldest and most contested questions: What is truth, and how do we decide what is true? Simon Blackburn introduces readers to the major theories that have shaped philosophical thinking for centuries, including the correspondence theory, coherence theory, pragmatism, deflationism, and semantic theories of truth.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780190867218
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- -
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- -
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- 121 BLA o
Emotion: A Very Short Introduction
Emotion: A Very Short Introduction offers a concise, research‑based tour of what emotions are, why humans have them, and how they shape thought and behavior. Dylan Evans draws on findings from anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence to explore the biological roots of emotions, their evolutionary purpose, and the ways they influence memory, decision‑making, and so…
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- 2nd Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780198834403
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 152.4 EVA e
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