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Author: Carl R. Trueman
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1581349238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history."--from publisher description.
Author: Ian Tattersall
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 0316503703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Néaumont to tell this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered"; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world in 2800 BC and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance.
Author: David H. Fischer
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1970-12-30
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0061315451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in respect....The wisdom is expressed with a certin ruthlessness. Scarcly a major historian escapes unscathed. Ten thousand members of the AmericanHistorical Association will rush to the index and breathe a little easier to find their names absent.
Author: Philip Ward
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-06
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1616083360
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Author: Stephen K. Campbell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-05-14
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0486140512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNontechnical survey helps improve ability to judge statistical evidence and to make better-informed decisions. Discusses common pitfalls: unrealistic estimates, improper comparisons, premature conclusions, and faulty thinking about probability. 1974 edition.
Author: Jacob E. Van Vleet
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-01-28
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 076187254X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical thinking is now needed more than ever. This accessible and engaging book provides the necessary tools to question and challenge the discourse that surrounds us—whether in the media, the classroom, or everyday conversation. Additionally, it offers readers a deeper understanding of the foundations of analytical thought. Informal Logical Fallacies: A Brief Guide is a systematic and concise introduction to more than fifty fallacies, from anthropomorphism and argumentum ad baculum, to reductionism and the slippery slope argument. This revised edition includes updated examples, exercises, and a new chapter on non-Western logical fallacies. With helpful definitions and relevant explanations, the author guides the reader through the realms of fallacious reasoning and deceptive rhetoric. This is an essential guide to philosophical reflection and clear thinking.
Author: Bryan Bunch
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0486137937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStimulating, thought-provoking analysis of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics, and language, including being led astray by algebra (De Morgan's paradox). 1982 edition.
Author: John Burrow
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-04-08
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 0307268527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTreating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity. This unique approach is an incredible lens with which to view the past. Standing alone in its ambition, scale and fascination, Burrow's history of history is certain to stand the test of time.
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0486131629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
Author: Sotirios A. Barber
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0674067967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarber shows how arguments for states’ rights from John C. Calhoun to the present offend common sense, logic, and bedrock constitutional principles. The Constitution is a charter of positive benefits, not a contract among separate sovereigns whose function is to protect people from the central government, when there are greater dangers to confront.
