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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
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution introduces readers to the rapidly developing world of quantum computers and the physics that makes them possible. Brian Clegg explains how traditional computing is reaching its physical limits and why quantum mechanics—through qubits, superposition, and entanglement—offers a radically different approach to processing i…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781785787072
- Collation
- 176 pages, 5.12 x 0.55 x 7.83 inches
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- -
- Call Number
- 006.3843 CLE q
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing: The Enigma is Andrew Hodges’s definitive biography of the brilliant mathematician whose ideas laid the foundations of modern computing and artificial intelligence. Hodges traces Turing’s life from his early intellectual gifts to his groundbreaking 1936 paper on the universal machine, which became the conceptual basis for all modern computers.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780691164724
- Collation
- 768 pages, 5 x 2 x 8 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 510.92 HOD
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.
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780226795874
- Collation
- 512 pages, 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- Series Title
- -
- 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
- Series Title
- -
- 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
- Collation
- 256 pages, 5.12 x 0.63 x 7.76 inches
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- -
- Call Number
- 153.35 WIL t
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought offers a clear, engaging journey through the evolution of mathematics as a human endeavor. Luke Heaton shows how mathematical ideas emerged from real‑world problems and gradually developed into the abstract language we use today.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780190621766
- Collation
- 336 pages, 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
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- -
- Call Number
- 510.9 HEA a
Galileo: And the Science Deniers
Galileo: And the Science Deniers offers a fresh, engaging portrait of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s most influential scientists. Drawing on his background as an astrophysicist, Mario Livio explains how Galileo’s groundbreaking observations—of the Moon’s surface, Jupiter’s moons, and the laws of motion—challenged the dominant worldview of his time.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501194733
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 520.92 LIV g
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