This book explains how to think in ways that will help keep you one step ahead. Debating skills, sound logical reasoning and thinking "outside the box" are all covered in this useful guide to tactical thinking. To support the theory there are also practical exercises and games, including teaching yourself to think before you speak.
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Charles Phillips (b. 1962) is an established writer of popular history, a contributor to Cassell's Dictionary of Modern Britain as well as to the Chronicle of Britain and several illustrated stories.
He has a keen interest in the mythology and history of the great Maya and Aztec civilizations and was a key writer on Time Life's Myth and Mankind series. Phillips is a graduate of Oxford University, and holds an MA from the University of Westminster.