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How Doctors Think
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Jerome Groopman
A "New Yorker" staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments--or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Douglas R Hofstadter
First published in 1979, this is a genuine interdisciplinary work of nonfiction, with dozens of historical references and subtexts. Critics and reviewers have summed up its meaning in varying ways, yet consistently with praise. A mixture of art, philosophy, music, math, technology, and cognitive science, the book's title only reflects one aspect ...
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LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible: A Comprehensive System for Attacking the Logical Reasoning Section of the LSAT
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David M Killoran
The most comprehensive manual available for solving every type of LSAT Logical Reasoning question, this guide features dozens of real Logical Reasoning questions with detailed explanations and is a staple of LSAT self-preparation.
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Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
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Kenneth H Rosen
"Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Sixth Edition", is intended for one- or two-term introductory discrete mathematics courses taken by students from a wide variety of majors, including computer science, mathematics, and engineering. This renowned best-selling text, which has been used at over 600 institutions around the world, gives a ...
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Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking
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M Neil Browne
The habits and attitudes associated with critical thinking are transferable to consumer, medical, legal, and general ethical choices. When our surgeon says surgery is needed, it can be life sustaining to seek answers to the critical questions encouraged in Asking the Right Questions This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing ...
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My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
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Martin Gardner
Noted expert selects 70 "short" puzzles. The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and 67 more. Solutions included.
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How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day
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Gerry L Spence
This work teaches you to make a winning argument in the boardroom, in the bedroom, at home or in the office, with your spouse, with your children, with your friends and and with your relations. The author's view is that argument is an art form, a technique which can be learnt, to give you advantage over your opponent and to persuade them that ...
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A Rulebook for Arguments
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Anthony Weston
Updated examples, streamlined text, and the chapter on definition reworked in a rule-based format strengthen this already strong volume. Readers familiar with the previous edition will find a text that retains all the features that make Rulebook ideally suited for use as a supplementary course book -- including its modest price and compact size. ...
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The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 Playthinks of Art, Mathematics & Science
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Ivan Moscovich, Ian Stewart
About the original 1000 Playthinks, Will Shortz of the "New York Times" said it best: "The most wide ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd's "Cyclopedia of Puzzles" almost a century ago." Now comes the same great Playthinks, but in a package that makes it an amazing value: "The Big Book of ...
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A Concise Introduction to Logic
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Patrick J Hurley
This text covers all of the standard topics for any introductory logic course. The material is integrated in such a way that elements fit together as in a puzzle so students can assemble a broad picture of the subject. Visual aids and colour are used to reinforce key points and concepts. Additionally, key terms are boldfaced, many examples serve ...
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Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku: Hundreds of Puzzles Plus Techniques to Help You Crack Them All
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Peter Gordon, Frank Longo
Here it comes: a revolution in sudoku solving! This is by far the most complete guide to cracking these addictive puzzles ever produced, with tricks even the experts won't know. While most books might have a few pages of introduction before proceeding straight to the sudokus, this one covers it all. Hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, ...
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Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction
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Gregory Bassham
This clear, learner-friendly text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. The text covers all the basics of critical thinking, beginning where students are, not where we think they should be. Its comprehensiveness allows instructors to tailor the material to their individual teaching styles, resulting ...
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Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings
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Sylvan Barnet
The unique collaborative effort of a distinguished interdisciplinary team -- a professor of English and a professor of philosophy -- "Current Issues and Enduring Questions" is a balanced and flexible book that provides the benefit of the authors' dual expertise in effective persuasive writing "and" rigorous critical thinking. Its comprehensive ...
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Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive
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Joyce Farrell
Provides the beginning programmer with a guide to developing structured program logic, assumes no programming experience and does not focus on any particular language.
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Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel Kant
Kant devoted over 10 years to writing the "Critique of Pure Reason", one of the fundamental works in all of Western philosophy. In it, Kant considers basic philosophical questions--the nature of reason, experience, science, morality, religion, truth, and reality--and attempts to reconcile the two dominant philosophical schools of his day: the ...
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Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument
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Sylvan Barnet
"Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing" is a compact but thorough guide to critical thinking and argumentation. Comprising the text portion of the widely adopted "Current Issues and Enduring Questions," it draws on the authors' dual expertise in effective persuasive writing and rigorous critical thinking. It helps students move from critical ...
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Language, Proof, and Logic
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Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy
This complete text and software package provides a self-contained introduction to the basic concepts of logic: language, truth, argument, consequence, proof and counterexample. Assuming no prior study of logic, Barwide and Etchemendy provide a clear and comprehensive outline of the field - a text appropriate for introductory or secondary courses ...
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Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care
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Joyce E Dains, Linda Ciofu Baumann, Pamela Scheibel
Designed for advanced practice nursing students and novice clinicians, "Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care" is a practical resource that takes the readers to the 'next step' of health assessment-beyond basic history and physical examination and into diagnostic reasoning process. Accessible and concise, it focuses on ...
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Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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Michael Sipser
This market leading text on computational theory provides a mathematical treatment of computer science theory designed around theorems and proofs.
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The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims
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Lewis Vaughn
The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims, Third Edition, presents the broadest range of tools for today's critical thinking students to apply in any arena, from everyday life to academia, and from science to the media. It explores the essentials of critical reasoning, argumentation, logic, and ...
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Introduction to logic
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Irving M. Copi
Dedicated to the memory of Irving M. Copi, the twelfth edition of Introduction to Logic retains its breadth of coverage, while breaking new ground with a compelling new design and inclusion of new pedagogic features to help students in their study of logic. This new edition goes further than any previous edition-or competing logic text-in ...
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Critical Thinking
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Brooke Noel Moore
More than any other textbook, Moore and Parker's "Critical Thinking" has defined the structure and content of the critical thinking course at colleges and universities across the country - and has done so with a witty writing style that students enjoy. Current examples relevant to today's students bring the concepts of critical thinking to life in ...
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How to Do Things with Words: Second Edition
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J L Austin, Marina Sbisa (Editor), J O Urmsson (Editor)
John L. Austin" was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic "How to Do Things with Words." For this second edition, the editors have returned to ...
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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
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Merrilee H Salmon
This textbook is ideal for introductory logic courses, as well as critical thinking courses. Salmon offers instructors a unique approach: she presents material on inductive reasoning before deductive reasoning. Numerous examples and problems allow students to check their mastery of a topic. This authoritative textbook presents logic and critical ...
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Is God a Mathematician?
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Mario Livio
This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world? Illustrations throughout.
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