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2) Critical Thinking & Stoicism: Discover How Stoic Philosophy Works and Master the Modern Art of Ha
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YOUR ALL-IN-ONE GUIDE TO ALWAYS STAY LEVEL-HEADED AND EFFECTIVELY SOLVE PROBLEMS
We all know that critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential in the modern world, but it can be hard to know where to start.
It seems like every day we're faced with new challenges and problems that we don't have the answers to.
How do we make decisions when we don't know what the right answer is?
This audiobook is the answer!
Critical Thinking & Stoicism...
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In today's world, it's incredibly easy to be overwhelmed by the information that we receive everyday. Even more so, it is difficult to determine if the information we receive is true. That's why it's important to parse through information with a critical mind. This allows students (and anyone) to listen and not take information as is. Does the leader of North Korea really not have a belly button? Will this course make me a millionaire in one day as...
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Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave's creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. The contributors, who hail from an array of disciplines, consider Cave's work from many different...
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Can you tell when you're being deceived?
This classic work on critical thinking-now fully updated and revised-uses a novel approach to teach the basics of informal logic. On the assumption that "it takes one to know one," the authors have written the book from the point of view of someone who wishes to deceive, mislead, or manipulate others. Having mastered the art of deception, readers will then be able to detect the misuse or abuse of logic when...
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POWER THINKING PRESS... Presents...The Anthology of Christian Art: Picture book with Analysis was written to show how the Christian Faith has been represented in art by prominent artists through history. This is a must read, and must see for anyone interested in how art has inspired the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Deeply learned, and with a style all his own, Marco Grassi is as at home with Duccio as he is with Norton Simon; Bronzino as with Bernard Berenson; a painting on his desk as with a Last Supper in Florence's Basilica of Santa Croce. In the Kitchen of Art selects the art conservator and dealer's most memorable contributions to The New Criterion over a span of nearly twenty years. Beginning with a previously unpublished memoir of his own Florentine upbringing,...
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ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art examines the application of art historical methods to the history of Christianity and art. As methods of art history have become more interdisciplinary, there has been a notable emergence of discussions of religion in art history as well as related fields such as visual culture and theology. This book represents the first critical examination of scholarly methodologies applied...
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Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is accompanied by an overview and interpretation. The volume features Martin Heidegger on Van Gogh's shoes and the meaning of the Greek temple; Georges Bataille...
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Approximately 300 daily and weekly newspapers flourished in New York before the Civil War. A majority of these newspapers, even those that proclaimed independence of party, were motivated by political conviction and often local conflicts. Their editors and writers jockeyed for government office and influence. Political infighting and their related maneuvers dominated the popular press, and these political and economic agendas led in turn to exploitation...
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Wesley Monroe Shrum, Jr., is Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University.
Why does the distinction between high and popular art persist in spite of postmodernist predictions that it should vanish? Departing from the conventional view that such distinctions are class-related, Wesley Shrum concentrates instead on the way individuals form opinions about culture through the mediation of critics. He shows that it is the extent to which critics...
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The FBI Hostage Rescue Team is dispatched to engage in resolving Critical Incidents. This bundle is the first three critical incidents in the series:
#1 - SuperCell: The Hostage Rescue Team is dispatched to the plains of Nebraska after a supercell tornado hits the maximum security prison.
The new members of the HRT team; Agents Fruen and Stevens along with his K-9 partner, are tested as they pursue two escaped inmates.
#2 - Free Fall: The FBI Hostage...
13) Critical Business Skills for Success: Organizational Behavior: The Art of Effective Communications
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Cultivate stronger communication skills with this engaging lecture that covers three burning communication needs in an organization and introduces you to six critically important lessons every effective communicator should follow.
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Discover the transformative power of critical thinking in this inspiring ebook. With unique illustrations and wisdom from famous minds, it dives into the essential aspects of life and equips you with the tools to find meaning and purpose. Learn to overcome cognitive biases, cultivate self-awareness, and navigate conflicts with rationality and respect. Explore strategies for effective problem-solving and decision-making, and develop lifelong learning...
15) The Art of Asking Essential Questions: Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Socratic Principles
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“The Art of Asking Essential Questions” illuminates an underappreciated yet vital skill set that lies at the root of all learning and success. Not only do questions help us gain knowledge on a topic, but they also allow us to dispel erroneous or deceptive information, uncover assumptions and motivations, draw accurate conclusions, and make sustainable plans.
Linda Elder and Richard Paul illustrate the elements of an effective question and discuss...
16) Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy
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Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.
Reconsidering the Life of Power examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self-cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past the ritual scripts of everyday life. In recent decades, European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to the way that people live out ritual scripts in order to be recognized by...
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Because so many Chinese artworks have been ravaged by time, the only way to really understand their history and significance is to turn to writings by the painters themselves or by contemporary critics. That is what Osvald Sirén has done in this classic book, with eye-opening results. One of the first Western studies to systematically cover the more than two thousand years of Chinese art, this book by a modern expert considers a wide range of topics,...
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C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing is written for readers interested in C. S. Lewis, the writing life, and in becoming better writers. Lewis stands as one of the most prolific and influential writers in modern history. His life in letters offers writers invaluable encouragement and instruction in the writing craft. In Lewis, writers don't just learn how to write, they also learn something about how to live. This volume explores Lewis's life in, as...
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Beautifully formatted in this Apostrophe Books edition, From the battlefield to the boardroom, The Art of War has been the definitive book on strategy for more than 2,000 years. General Sun Tzu's work, still required reading for CIA officers today, has decided battles in conflicts throughout the world, and has been used in warfare by the likes of US generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf, Chairman Mao, and the fearsome armies of the Vietcong....
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Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form of address. So are speaking, singing, and painting. Initiating or responding to such calls, we participate in encounters with the world. Widely used yet less often examined in its own right, the notion of address cries out for analysis.
Monique Roelofs offers a path breaking systematic model of the field...
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