Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a ground breaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.

System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional;

System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.

The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation―each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies
by Martin Cohen

Turbocharge your reasoning with Critical Thinking Just what are the ingredients of a great argument?

What is the secret to communicating your ideas clearly and persuasively?

And how do you see through sloppy thinking and flim-flam? If you ve ever asked any of these questions, then this book is for you!

These days, strong critical thinking skills provide a vital foundation for academic success, and Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies offers a clear and unintimidating introduction to what can otherwise be a pretty complex topic.

Inside, you’ll get hands-on, lively, and fun exercises that you can put to work today to improve your arguments and pin down key issues.

With this accessible and friendly guide, you’ll get plain-English instruction on how to identify other people’s assumptions, methodology, and conclusions, evaluate evidence, and interpret texts effectively.

You’ll also find tips and guidance on reading between the lines, assessing validity and even advice on when not to apply logic too rigidly! Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies:

* Provides tools and strategies from a range of disciplines great for developing your reflective thinking skills

* Offers expert guidance on sound reasoning and textual analysis

* Shows precisely how to use concept mapping and brainstorming to generate insights

* Demonstrates how critical thinking skills is a proven path to success as a student

Whether you’re undertaking reviews, planning research projects or just keen to give your brain a workout, Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies equips you with everything you need to succeed.

A Field Guide to Lies:
Critical Thinking with Statistics
and the Scientific Method
by Daniel J. Levitin

We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process–especially in election season.

It’s raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. 

New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports, revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.

It’s becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff.

How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, and distortions from reliable information?

Levitin groups his field guide into two categories

–statistical information and faulty arguments

–ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking.

Infoliteracy means understanding that there are hierarchies of source quality and bias that variously distort our information feeds via every media channel, including social media.

We may expect newspapers, bloggers, the government, and Wikipedia to be factually and logically correct, but they so often aren’t.

We need to think critically about the words and numbers we encounter if we want to be successful at work, at play, and in making the most of our lives.

This means checking the plausibility and reasoning–not passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it.

Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection.

Levitin’s charming, entertaining, accessible guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that aren’t so.

And catch some weasels in their tracks!

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