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  • Good Reasoning Matters!

    A Guide to Critical Thinking in a Digital Age, Sixth Edition

    Good Reasoning Matters! teaches students how to decipher, evaluate, analyze, construct, and engage in argument. This sixth edition incorporates many timely topics, including the impact of artificial intelligence and social media on how we propose and respond to arguments. The instruction in the book is rooted in traditional philosophical understandings of argument, but is expanded to account for ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Reinventing Brantford

    A University Comes Downtown

    by Leo Groarke ...
    Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s AwardOne hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century, Brantford was known for unemployment, hard luck, and the infamy of having "the worst downtown in Canada." ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of the New Economy

    Restructuring and Beyond

    Edited by Leo Groarke ...
    Is restructuring an underhanded way to make the rich richer and the poor poorer? Or is it necessary, although bitter, medicine for an ailing economy?In The Ethics of the New Economy: Restructuring and Beyond, professionals from the fields of philosophy, ethics, management, as well as those representing the groups affected by restructuring, tackle thorny ethical issues. Referring to concrete case ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Enlightenment 2.0

    by Joseph Heath ...
    The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us "slow politics": promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debate.Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided--not between right and left but between crazy and non-crazy. Whats more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Think Again

    How to Reason and Argue

    Series series Pelican Books
    A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the other side is widespread today. What can we do to change this? In Think Again philosopher Walter Sinnott ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    "An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity

    Think More, Think Better

    by Joe Y. F. Lau ...
    A valuable guide on creativity and critical thinking to improve reasoning and decision-making skillsCritical thinking skills are essential in virtually any field of study or practice where individuals need to communicate ideas, make decisions, and analyze and solve problems. An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better outlines the necessary tools for readers to ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies

    by Martin Cohen ...
    Learn how to argue points effectively, analyze information, and make sound judgmentsThe ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset. Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies helps you hone your thinking abilities and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Informal Logic

    A Pragmatic Approach

    Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Critical Thinking Toolkit

    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 ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Language Revolution

    by David Crystal ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages.In this book, David Crystal, one of the world's authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • How to Think More and Better

    Being Reasonable in Unreasonable Times

    William B. Irvine, author of the popular book "A Guide to the Good Life," offers much needed philosophical advice on how to become a more rational and critical thinker in today's emotionally-driven and complex world. Even the most reasonable of us can be selective about when we think reasonably. We may realize that the best thing to do is to take the advice of our doctor when facing a medical ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD