Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “books review”
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Transforming the Future Anticipation in the 21st Century
A book by Riel Miller, 2018.
It isn’t just a book review, it is also a review of a concept. The book introduces the concept of future literacy, a discipline, a concept, and an idea promoted by UNESCO. This concept should help people to think about their future more productively. In turn it should help to make a better decision and create a better future.
The books consists of a number of articles about different aspects of future literacy.
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How To Measure Anything
This book by Douglas W. Hubbard isn’t exactly a critical thinking textbook. But it is a good text about measurements, probabilities, and evaluation. Imagine that you have a goal. You create a plan how to reach this goal, but how can you be sure that the goal is reached? You can make your goal measurable, then you can measure it and compare real results with expected results. And according to the author it can be any goal because you can measure anything.
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Reason Better: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Critical Thinking
https://app.tophat.com/e/455176/assigned/ You can access the link without registration choosing Enter as Guest option.
This course or book was created by David Manley. In essence it is a critical thinking online textbook, but with integrated exercises. Other educators, who use the same platform, can change the text according to their purposes. But even if you don’t work to register you can just read it as a regular book.
The book covers a number of topics: how the human mind works, different mindsets and point of view on reasoning, how to achieve clarity with good arguments, how to understand different forms of argument, what to do with evidence and how to apply a probabilistic approach to hypotheses, how to use generalization and what kind of errors may appear during this process, how to understand causation and relate it to evidence, how new information should change our beliefs, how to formulate theories and hypotheses correctly, how to make decisions.
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Critical Thinking by Moore and Parker
10th edition of 2012 and 11th edition of 2014
There is an even newer edition published, but I do not have it. In the same time I can compare two previous editions to look for their differences. After that I can conclude what can we expect from the 12th edition and is it worth buying if you have an older edition.
This is a good textbook for learning critical thinking. It can be used as a sole source of information of with a number or other books and courses.