books about: fallacies     books:     Fallacies      Economic Facts and Fallacies Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2007 Required Reading for candidates My fantasy of having great wealth is to start a foundation that would give a book a week to every member of Congress, every state legislator, every government policymaker, every opinion columnist and every candidate. This would be the second book we'd give out. First ...             Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong John Stossel Hyperion, 2007 Love this book! Though I can't say I agree with everything John Stossel says in this book, he still manages to make you think and question what you believe is fact. He writes in a very straightforward, fist-to-your-gut manner that makes this book a quick read or a fun book to flip ...             The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Market Fallacy George Cooper Harriman House, 2008 4.5 stars-Cooper has connected all of the dots except one-he missed Keynes Cooper has written a book that currently must be judged to be superior to any other book written on the Subprime mortgage backed bond catastrope that has led the American Treasury Secretary Paulson to advocate the government purchase of about 1 trillion dollars of ...             The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits Gregg Braden Hay House, 2008 Putting our best foot forward The hard-nosed skeptic will caricature Gregg Braden's "The Spontaneous Healing of Belief" as just another "New Age" book written about how we create our own world by merely believing. I want to defend Braden's book from such criticism, and I invite skeptical readers to ...             Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial ... Jamie Whyte McGraw-Hill, 2004 Excellent Book After reading this book and then noticing some of the negative reviews, I was perplexed as to why. So I clicked on the lower reviews and noticed a common theme; they're all upset about Whyte's attempt to diminish Christianity and religion as a whole. So for readers who ...             Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking Thomas E. Kida Prometheus Books, 2006 Regarding Pseudoscience, 2006: One of my favorite quotes from this book: "why do we hold many pseudoscientific beliefs? Probably the main reason is that we want to believe them. As the noted astronomer Carl Sagan observed, pseudoscience and other weird beliefs often meet our emotional needs ...             Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus" Timothy Paul Jones IVP Books, 2007 A Great Resource I appreciated this work as it's a great introduction to an honest assessment of Bart Ehrman's terribly misleading book, Misquoting Jesus. I would encourage the reader to further pursue methods of answering critics like Ehrman by studying many of the works listed in ...             The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Six Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning, 2nd Edition Nathaniel Bluedorn, Hans Bluedorn Christian Logic, 2002 Confidence builder for teens This book sparked many wonderful discussions at the dinner table. Our teens easily used the collection of tools offered in The Fallacy Detective to logically analyze the news of the day--what a confidence builder for them! This book certainly encourages conversation ...             How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic Madsen Pirie Continuum, 2007 Logical Toolbox This book is more than just an exceptionally wonderful collection of logical fallacies. I enjoyed the fresh examples, and I must confess that a few of them have found their way into my lectures. While our school library has this book in its collection because it ...             The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers Phil Rosenzweig Free Press, 2007 Must read for any business manager or business analyst If you are looking for the "Get Rich Quick" scheme or "Key to Business Success", this book is NOT for you as the author offered none of this. What he offered is far more useful and practical than any business books you would read or may have read. Rosensweig helped ...             Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life Howard Kahane, Nancy M. Cavender Wadsworth Publishing, 2005 another professor This is an excellent book, with no axe to grind--other than promoting clear thinking. It covers a lot of ground, is accessible, yet not superficial. I have used it in class for years in its various editions, and the examples, discussion, and even cartoons are always of ...             Exegetical Fallacies D. A. Carson Baker Academic, 1996 Exercise Care In Selecting Words Exegetical Fallacies has a limited purview in that it does not consider brilliant exegesis, but woeful and fallacious errors. 'Ignorance is not a virtue', states DA Carson, Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. But don't be surprised if ...             Trade Myths: Globalization and the Trade Balance Fallacy Enzio von Pfeil Inkstone Books, 2008 Myth 1: Imports kill jobs; Myth 2: Exchange rates drive trade; Myth 3: A trade balance is a national matter; Myth 4: A trade "deficit" is "bad:; Myth 5: Foreigners finance America's trade deficit -- These commonly held concepts of trade balances are based on 15th-century accounting techniques. Politicians misled by these outdated ideas have made ...             Amazing . . . but False!: Hundreds of "Facts" You Thought Were True, but Aren't David Diefendorf Sterling, 2007 Serious fun Keep a copy of this book handy in your bathroom...but don't use the pages for toilet paper, they're way too interesting! I found bite-size nuggets of enlightenment on such varied topics as Hitler (actually an artistic sort of guy), Bra Burning (it never happened), and ...             Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought David H. Fischer Harper Perennial, 1970 Belongs on every historians reference shelf I have just read Fischer's work and have ordered my own copy. In my specialty I have read many works that commit many of the fallacies that Fischer describes. I am going to read this book carefully again, both to improve my work and to better understand that of others. ...          products you might be interested in search for books contemporary, globalization, journalists, politicians, shattering, spontaneous      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings