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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
David Hackett 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. ...
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 ...
The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Six Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning, 2nd Edition
Nathaniel Bluedorn
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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 ...
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 ...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Dover Value Editions)
Charles Mackay
Dover Publications
, 2003
Chronciles of past financial bubbles
I bought this bought after discovering it was a favorite of many of the greatest stock traders of all time(Baruch,Livermore, and others. First published in 1841, the English is a little richer are harder to follow than our modern day version but the book does what it ...
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 ...
The Fat Fallacy: The French Diet Secrets to Permanent Weight Loss
Will Clower
Three Rivers Press
, 2003
Excellent read...
Being a Neurophysiology which is a part of physiology as a science, which is concerned with the study of the nervous system. It is closely connected with psychology, neurology, clinical neurophysiology, electrophysiology, ethology, higher nervous activity and other ...
Schaum's Outline of Logic
John Nolt
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Dennis Rohatyn
, ...
McGraw-Hill
, 1998
excellent introduction to the mechanics of logic
This book is an excellent introduction to what I call the mechanics of logic. If you are interested in metalogic proofs, like the deduction theorem, then don't look here. This book teaches the basics of logic. It presents logic in several different ways: using ...
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