The "Parade Magazine" columnist, whose 228 I.Q. invites comparison to Einstein's, offers another collection of intriguing facts and discussions of controversial issues

More Marilyn: Some Like It Bright

Marilyn Vos Savant

Reference

St.Martin's Press

A classic of critical thinking that is now more urgent than ever!
America has become a society devoid of understanding of the power of logic and numbers. All too often, we rely on our intuition or on empty statistics to formulate opinions about ourselves and our world. As a result of inadequate schooling in the art of reasoning, we have become a people unable to make truly logical decisions, intimidated by numbers, and too passive to reverse this disturbing trend. 
The Power of Logical Thinking addresses these concerns, illustrating how you can reason better, how numbers are used against you, and how your vote may be affected. Marilyn vos Savant writes, "We can't trust our intuitions, our statisticians, or our politicians. The 1992 presidential campaign is a case in point. Numbers were used, abused, and misused by the candidates as never before in the history of our country. Voters were easily manipulated, setting a precedent for years to come." 
Part One of The Power of Logical Thinking explains the most provocative of the counterintuitive problems that Marilyn vos Savant has encountered in recent years, such as the now classic "Monty Hall Dilemma," the improbability of winning the lottery, and much more. 
Part Two shows how statistics have quietly become a tool of persuasion instead of education. In addition to exploring puzzles and paradoxes, this sections explains the underlying reasoning to help you answer questions such as which surgery should you choose? What are your odds of having breast cancer? Do drug-testing and AIDS-testing give you yes/no answers? 
In Part Three, vos Savant illustrates how our votes are affected, with examples of selective logic, specious reasoning, and outright sophistry collected from the campaigns of the '80s and '90s...techniques that politicians and corporations still use to manipulate voters today.

The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives

Self-Help

Memory Improvement

St. Martin's: Griffin

Drawing on the thousands of reponses to the "Ask Marilyn" spelling survey, the Parade magazine columnist examines what spelling reveals about an individual's personalitiy, native intelligence, education, and desire; traces the history of English spelling; and discusses ways to improve one's own spelling ability. 40,000 first printing.

The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method

Words, Language & Grammar

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The power and capacity of the brain and intelligence can be exercised and strengthened like any muscle in the body. This book contains a 12-week programme of practical exercises which have been devised to stretch the mind, with the aim of improving the quality of life, career success and personal achievement. The authors' objective is to increase the reader's vocabulary, build a logical mind, strengthen the attention span and senses and widen the perspective. They believe that possession of a mathematical mind does not depend on a knowledge of mathematics, that brainpower can be improved without academic qualifications and that determination is all that is required. Marilyn vos Savant, who writes a regular magazine column, is credited as having the highest IQ ever recorded. Her co-author, Leonore Fleischer, has written many books.

Brain Power: The 12-week Mental Training Programme

Piatkus Books

A comprehensive, & useful guide for spellers of all abilities, plus a look at what our spelling reveals about our intelligence & our personalities. This book is the result of the ''Ask Marilyn'' spelling survey, which investigated whether spelling was a measure of intelligence, educ., personality traits, or desire. With results in hand, vos Savant describes the psychological. evidence for the origin of good (& bad) spelling & provides personality portraits of all kinds of spellers. Also offers the most effective methods of spelling improvement, incl. lists of commonly misspelled words. Recounts the turbulent history of English spelling, provides a warning about the use & misuse of spell-checkers, & offers a glimpse of the future for spelling standards in education.

Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method

Norton, W.W.

In 1998, Parade's "Ask Marilyn" columnist Vos Savant did a reader survey about spelling and received more than 43,000 responses. The result of the survey is this book. Vos Savant offers some suggestions for spelling improvement, supplying common roots like anim-, arch-, and spec- and a list of 500 commonly misspelled words. She also includes a few quizzes, with answers in the back of the book. This is not a how-to book,however, for more than half of it examines what spelling ability tells us about intelligence and personality. Vos Savant points out that while it is true that spelling errors reveal a lot about the writer, spelling and intelligence do not necessarily go hand in hand: some highly educated people spell poorly, while some uneducated people spell surprisingly well. Fortunately, everyone can learn to spell better, This well-written book is fun to read and gives hope to the spelling impaired.The bibliography and web site list are nice additions as well. Recommended for all libraries.(Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Barnes&Noble Books

Gimnasia cerebral

Leonore Fleischer

Relationships

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Brain Building. Das Supertraining für Gedächtnis, Logik, Kreativität.

Rowohlt Tb.

Gimnasia Cerebral En Accion (Temas de Superacion Personal) (Spanish Edition)

Edaf S.A.

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