Product Description: Success depends on the ability to think critically. Training and practice turn this ability into a powerful skill. BECOMING A CRITICAL THINKER gives students the opportunity to develop this skill in a classroom environment while stressing its application to daily life...read more

Becoming a Critical Thinker stresses concrete and practical applications of critical thinking in everyday situations. The concise structure makes the text a useful supplement to any student success course, and its use of timely examples—from advertising, television, music, and the Internet—help students connect the skills outlined to their own lives.The text is divided into a series of cumulative activities and includes exercises linked to further activities on the Web.Chapter 4, Solving Problems, provides critical-thinking techniques that students can apply to school and life.Thinking Critically About Research offers methods for assessing information.Thinking Critically About Movies illustrates how the cinema is used as a tool for persuasion, and how students can analyze the messages within the context of a film.

Product Description: Poor education, bad parenting, a sense of entitlement, the "wasteland" of television, and more. These are the symptoms of a culture in decline. While it's easy to recite a litany of our problems, identifying their root causes requires more than the facile commentary offered by media pundits...read more

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This succinct, interdisciplinary introduction to critical reasoning successfully dares students to question their own assumptions and to enlarge their thinking world through the analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The text offers a unique and effective organization: Part I explains the fundamental concepts; Part II describes the most common barriers to critical thinking; Part III offers strategies for overcoming those barriers; Part IV offers a selection of contemporary issues that invite students to practice their skills.

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Product Description: Accessible and engaging, this unique text offers concrete, practice strategies for critical and creative thinking and includes many opportunities for practicing these fundamental skills.   The Art of Thinking introduces students to the principles and techniques of critical thinking, taking them step-by-step through the problem-solving process...read more

Product Description: Book by Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan

Product Description: Making Your Mind Matter is a practical guide to effective thinking in college and in everyday life. Critical thinking guru Vincent Ryan Ruggiero explains how and why the mind has been neglected in American education, then teaches readers how to take charge of their own mental development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Crime in Literature addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works. It is not a work of literary criticism, but a book written by a sociologist who reads fiction sociologically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It's easy to identify students with negative attitudes toward school, schoolwork and teachers. They're usually bored, disruptive, rebellious, argumentative, withdrawn, inattentive, frequently tardy or frequently absent. Or all of the above! But now-at last-help is available for teachers who care enough to affect a change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A Guide to Sociological Thinking is designed to increase students' cognitive learning. It draws upon the insights of a number of educational initiatives - critical, creative and reflective thinking. Its objectives are to guide students to the mastery of cognitive habits and skills, to increase students' appreciation and enthusiasm for the field of sociology by presenting it not just as a collection of established facts but as a continuing search for new insights...read more

Product Description: The Art of Thinking is a comprehensive guide to critical and creative thinking that emphasizes what to do rather than what to avoid doing. This text introduces students to the principles and techniques of creative thinking; teaches them how to evaluate their own ideas, as well as the ideas of others; and shows them how to persuade...read more

Product Description: It's true that nonsense is hazardous, and this eye-opening, intensely logical book powerfully argues that the most important first steps in dealing with our nation's problems involve seeing things clearly and then talking about them honestly...read more

Product Description: Emphasizing creative, critical and ethical thinking, this text shows students how to apply those skills to effective business correspondence, challenging them - through case studies and exercise applications - to think about complex communication issues...read more

Product Description: Have you ever been asked an instructor, "What do I do next?" Have you ever been told rather vaguely, "Well that depends"? If either response has left you frustrated and still wondering what to do, you will appreciate the structure of this book...read more

Discusses how habits are formed and how they shape personal identity, and suggests methods of identifying bad habits and replacing them with good ones

Product Description: Book by Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan