Through the use of humor, fun exercises, and a plethora of innovative and interesting selections from writers such as Dave Barry, Al Franken, J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as from the film "The Matrix", this text hones students' critical thinking skills. Students will find this text enjoyable and memorable; instructors will find it and its accompanying supplements effective and easy to use.

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Politics & Social Sciences

Wallace, James M.

Bassham,Gregory

Irwin,William

Nardone,Henry

Wallace,James

Philosophy

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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 in an exceptionally versatile text.

Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction

This popular text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. Using a proven step-by-step approach, this text covers all the basics of critical thinking, in clear, reader-friendly language. Its comprehensiveness allows instructors to tailor the material to their individual teaching styles, resulting in an exceptionally versatile text.

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Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

wiley

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Business & Money

This biography chronicles William Gates' rise as the most powerful player in the computer industry--a man who has revolutionized the software industry with the incredible growth of his Microsoft company, that now threatens gigantic IBM. Reveals Gates' personal quirks and idiosyncrasies which helped fuel his fierce competitive spirit. Interviews Gates' closest friends, associates and former employees, and details IBM's as well as Apples' efforts to topple his Microsoft empire.

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

Erickson, Jim

On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, ex-SEAL Coby MacKenzie is training a secret special-operations unit called Ghost Eagle 1, Team Kamehameha. On the team are Shane Waters, Will Bottoms, and Kalee Jourden. They are 16 years old. Also on the team are Eiji Ahana and Roby MacKenzie, ages 14 and 13.They were warned that they might face extreme danger. Now it's here.Black Dragon agents have slipped onto Kauai to take possession of a stolen, high-value package. Team Kamehameha's mission: intercept the package.If they fail, the Hawaiian Islands could be wiped off the face of the earth.Time is running out.

Tsunami (Ghost Eagle, Book 1)

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

iUniverse, Inc.

Tales From The River is a collection of 33 short stories inspired by the author's sunrise walks through a 300-year old Southern town on the Mississippi River.
"Every tale lures you to the next, from the fanciful, to the historical, to the other worldly. Are they real or are they imagined? You'll wonder.
I loved it . . . It stirs the imagination.
Tales From The River reminded me of Marjorie Rawlings who wrote the Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Yearling. Marjorie's editor, Maxwell Perkins, suggested she write a book appealing to both young and old. Marjorie thought a moment and replied, 'You sit there at your desk and ask me to write a classic.' Which Marjorie did. [Tales From The River] is that kind of book."
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Tales From The River is divided into four parts, with stories for all ages.
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Tales From The River

Short Stories & Anthologies

Southern River Publishing

This book traces and analyzes the relationships between educational developments and liberal journalism, as represented by The Nation and The New Republic, from 1914 to 1941. James Wallace provides new perspectives on journalists, activists, and educators like Randolph Bourne, John Dewey, Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, Oswald Villard, and Agnes de Lima.The first part of the book, covering the 1914-1921 period, interprets the responses of the journals to the "cult of efficiency" in schools, to academic freedom struggles, and to the role of education in the broad reform movement. The second section, on the 1920s, explores the journals' support of the worker education movement and of progressive schools, and critiques the charge of anti-intellectualism that has been leveled at progressive education and particularly at John Dewey. In his analysis of the 1930s, Wallace notes that liberals were now operating in a friendlier political climate, and that this changed their educational interests. Wallace explains the journals' role in the struggle between liberals and radicals for control of the American Federation of Teachers, interprets their treatment of "the revolt of youth," and analyzes their responses to New Deal programs for young people. These chapters place events in the context of the journals' support for the Popular Front with the Communists. In the final section, Wallace analyzes the role of journalism in educational reform and states the need for continued criticism of the kind provided by The Nation and The New Republic.

Liberal Journalism and American Education: 1914-1941

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Rutgers University Press

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Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction

Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction

Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace

Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace

Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

Tsunami (Ghost Eagle, Book 1)

Tales From The River

Liberal Journalism and American Education: 1914-1941