Product Description: Designed for one-term courses on physics for liberal arts majors, this book aims to give an insight into the connections between physics and cultural history. The book uses no mathematics beyond basic high-school algebra. The author has twice won awards from the American Institute of Physics...read more

Product Description: The second edition of The Elements of Reasoning retains the accessible and succinct approach that made the first edition the best treatment of the essentials of argumentation. It presents the principles that govern the composition of effective argumentative discourse and includes brief examples, with analyses that show students the underlying structure of the argument presented and the ways in which the rhetoric was persuasive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)