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"Fourteen 60-minute full-length practice MCAT verbal exams in the new MCAT format ... [with] 2,240 detailed explanations for all answer choices--P. [4] of cover. |
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Thinking socratically
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Emotional minds
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The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of ins… |
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Advances in Cognitive Systems
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Institution of Engineering and Technology |
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Excellent Sheep
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This book is a groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation's top schools should be -- but aren't -- providing: "The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless … |
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As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critic… |
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Belief change is an emerging field of artificial intelligence and information science dedicated to the dynamics of information and the present book provides a state-of-the-art picture of its formal f… |
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Cognition, Agency and Rationality
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As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field. This volume contains three kinds of papers correspond… |
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Reasoning with Actual and Potential Contradictions
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This volume deals with approaches to handling contradictory information. These include approaches for actual contradiction - both A and not-A can be proven from the information - and approaches for p… |
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Mathematical reasoning workbook for the GED test
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McGraw-Hill Education (Firm) |
This workbook offers skillbuilding exercises in all the mathematics topics that you will encounter on the test. You also get samples of the latest question types and a posttest closely modeled on the… |
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Debunk it!
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Uses modern headline examples to explain how to identify bad evidence and poor arguments, summarizing the rhetorical tricks people use to sway public opinion in a range of fields. |
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MCAT verbal practice
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"MCAT Verbal Practice provides you with the most extensive practice available for the MCAT's new Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills section. these passages have been arranged in one dozen timed p… |
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Building thinking skills
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This series provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as visual and auditory proces… |
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Challenging word puzzles teach how to follow directions and think methodically to deduce the solution. |
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The new rhetoric
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An argument for moving rhetoric away from the techniques of Descartes and the analytic philosophers and towards those of the ancient Greeks. |
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