[PDF] An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

• Author : Ali Almossawi
• Publisher : The Experiment
• Release Date : 2014-09-23
• ISBN : 9781615192267

“This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company's ‘organizational intelligence.’. . . It’s more than just a must-read, it’s a ‘have-to-read-or-you’re-fired’ book”—Geoffrey James, INC.com From the author of the forthcoming An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated

• Author : Ali Almossawi
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2014
• ISBN : 192511385X

• Author : Ali Almossawi
• Publisher : The Experiment
• Release Date : 2021-11-09
• ISBN : 9781615198412

“This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today’s culture wars.”—Hope Jahren The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return with this desperately timely guide to how words can trick us. Learn to “hear” hidden bias, slant, and spin—from an irresistible cast of woodland creatures! Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”—be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen

• Author : Robert Arp,Steven Barbone,Michael Bruce
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2018-09-28
• ISBN : 9781119165804

A timely and accessible guide to 100 of the most infamous logical fallacies in Western philosophy, helping readers avoid and detect false assumptions and faulty reasoning You’ll love this book or you’ll hate it. So, you’re either with us or against us. And if you’re against us then you hate books. No true intellectual would hate this book. Ever decide to avoid a restaurant because of one bad meal? Choose a product because a celebrity endorsed it?

• Author : Ali Almossawi
• Publisher : Cormorant Press
• Release Date : 2018-10-02
• ISBN : 9780989931212

An accidental author reflects on five years in publishing and discovers the transformative power of hobbies. From the author: "Most of the book came together on the train over the course of several weeks. Though originally meant to be a field guide to publishing, it eventually evolved into something more introspective. This is a book for anyone who enjoyed my first two forays into publishing and wants to learn more about that process, or anyone who is looking for a

• Author : Ali Almossawi
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release Date : 2017-04-04
• ISBN : 9781473650756

A relatable, interactive, and funny exploration of algorithms, those essential building blocks of computer science - and of everyday life - from the author of the wildly popular Bad Arguments. Algorithms -- processes that are made up of unambiguous steps and do something useful -- make up the very foundations of computer science. Yet, they also inform our choices in approaching everyday tasks, from managing a pile of clothes fresh out of the dryer to deciding what music to listen

• Author : Ali Almossawi
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2017-04-04
• ISBN : 9780735222236

A relatable, interactive, and funny exploration of algorithms, those essential building blocks of computer science—and of everyday life—from the author of the wildly popular Bad Arguments Algorithms—processes that are made up of unambiguous steps and do something useful—make up the very foundations of computer science. But they also inform our choices in approaching everyday tasks, from managing a pile of clothes fresh out of the dryer to deciding what music to listen to. With Bad Choices,

• Author : Roman Z. Morawski
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release Date : 2019-05-06
• ISBN : 9783110584066

From the content: Introduction Mathematical modelling Measurement Scientific explanation Context of discovery Context of justification Uncertainty of scientific knowledge Morality and moral philosophy System ofvalues associated with science General principles of moral decision-making Researchethics Methodological and ethical issues related to experimentation Methodological and ethical issues to researchinformation Methodological and ethical issuesrelated to legal protection of intellectual property

• Author : Jodie Nicotra
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release Date : 2018-01-01
• ISBN : 9781337670272

Becoming rhetorical is a transformation that allows students to identify rhetorical problems and respond to them with arguments, no matter the course or context from which the problems emerge. In BECOMING RHETORICAL, author Jodie Nicotra takes students beyond the view of the rhetorical situation as being composed of communicator, audience, and message, encouraging them also to consider important aspects such as exigence, purpose, and the means of communication. Students learn to analyze and compose in textual, visual, and multimodalities --

• Author : Ali Almossawi
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2021-10-12
• ISBN : 1615198520

• Author : Craig E. Carroll
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release Date : 2016-05-04
• ISBN : 9781483376530

What creates corporate reputations and how should organizations respond? Corporate reputation is a growing research field in disciplines as diverse as communication, management, marketing, industrial and organizational psychology, and sociology. As a formal area of academic study, it is relatively young with roots in the 1980s and the emergence of specialized reputation rankings for industries, products/services, and performance dimensions and for regions. Such rankings resulted in competition between organizations and the alignment of organizational activities to qualify and improve

• Author : Mary Renck Jalongo,Olivia N. Saracho
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2016-05-24
• ISBN : 9783319316505

This book offers systematic instruction and evidence-based guidance to academic authors. It demystifies scholarly writing and helps build both confidence and skill in aspiring and experienced authors. The first part of the book focuses on the author’s role, writing’s risks and rewards, practical strategies for improving writing, and ethical issues. Part Two focuses on the most common writing tasks: conference proposals, practical articles, research articles, and books. Each chapter is replete with specific examples, templates to generate a

• Author : Buster Benson
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release Date : 2019-11-28
• ISBN : 9781529004953

‘This is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better’ – Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing Why Are We Yelling? is Buster Benson’s essential guide to having more honest and constructive arguments. Have you ever walked away from an argument and suddenly thought of all the brilliant things you wish you'd said? Do you avoid certain family members and colleagues because of bitter, festering

• Author : Susan Wise Bauer,Jessie Wise
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2016-08-09
• ISBN : 9780393253634

Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child’s education—by doing it yourself. The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about

• Author : Galen A. Foresman,Peter S. Fosl,Jamie C. Watson
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2016-06-02
• ISBN : 9781118981993

The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations. Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and errors from psychology, race and gender from sociology and political science, and tropes and symbols from rhetoric Follows the proven format of The Philosopher’s