Authors:Naomi Kramer, Ronald Headland,
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: shoah, race, fallacy
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1998-11-25
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0776604767
ISBN-13: 9780776604763

Naomi Kramer and Ronald Headland to approach the universal issues that inevitably arise in discussing the Holocaust -- evil, courage, human dignity, moral responsibility and the existential qualities of humankind -- through individual experience. Consisting of two main parts, the book explores one individual’s experience during the Shoah and the historical context in which these experiences occurred.

Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: race, fallacy, myth, dangerous, man
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1997-11-26
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0803946481
ISBN-13: 9780803946484

Man’s Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people’s character and intelligence. It presented a revolutionary theory for its time; breaking the link between genetics and culture, it argued that race is largely a social construction and not constitutive of significant biological differences between people. In the ensuing 55 years, as Ashley Montagu’s radical hypothesis became accepted knowledge, succeeding editions of his book traced the changes

Author: Duncan K. Foley
Publisher: Belknap Press
Keywords: theology, economic, guide, fallacy, adam
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0674023099
ISBN-13: 9780674023093

This book could be called “The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Economics.” Like Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers, it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter. In between are chapters on Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, the marginalists, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Thorstein Veblen. The title expresses Duncan Foley’s belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive sc

Author: Will Clower
Publisher: Three Rivers Pre
Keywords: weight, loss, permanent, secrets, french, diet, fallacy
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 2003-04-22
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400049199
ISBN-13: 9781400049196

Fat is not the enemy!Croissants. Brioche. Brie. To the American palate, these foods are fattening and oftentimes “forbidden.” Yet they are the regular staples of the French diet. And though almost half of all Americans are overweight, France’s obesity rate is at a low eight percent, while the French also boast fewer cases of stroke and heart disease. It’s clear that America’s obsession with low-fat and fat-free foods has ultimately failed. In The Fat Fallacy, neuroscientist Will Clower explains precisely why the American diet sabotages weight-loss efforts and discusses how French eat

Author: Duncan K. Foley
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: theology, economic, guide, fallacy, adam
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0674027299
ISBN-13: 9780674027299

This book could be called “The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Economics.” Like Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers, it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter. In between are chapters on Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, the marginalists, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Thorstein Veblen. The title expresses Duncan Foley’s belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam’s fall

Author: T. Edward Damer
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: fallacy, free, arguments, guide, practical, faulty, reasoning, attacking
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-02-21
List price: $83.95
ISBN-10: 0495095060
ISBN-13: 9780495095064

Increasingly college courses and programs require a critical thinking component—and include assignments meant to measure your critical thinking skills. ATTACKING FAULTY REASONING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FALLACY-FREE ARGUMENTS, SIXTH EDITION, can help you brush up on these skills—and learn how to develop the logical, persuasive arguments you need now and throughout your career. This useful handbook addresses more than 60 common fallacies of logic with the help of over 200 memorable examples. It provides explanations and tips for avoiding fallacious thinking, and is an ideal resource when writin

Author: George Cooper
Publisher: Harriman House
Keywords: bubbles, efficient, market, fallacy, credit, banks, financial, crises, central, origin
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 1905641850
ISBN-13: 9781905641857

The Origin of Financial Crises provides a compelling analysis of the forces behind today’s economic crisis. In a series of disarmingly simple arguments George Cooper challenges the core principles of today’s economic orthodoxy, explaining why financial markets do not obey the efficient market principles described in today’s economic textbooks but are instead inherently unstable and habitually crisis prone.