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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,581 ratings — published 2023
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 7,482 ratings — published 2007
How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 1,464 ratings — published 2006
A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 3,307 ratings — published 1986
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 139,033 ratings — published 1995
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,912 ratings — published 1981
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 6,477 ratings — published 2006
One Word from Sophia (The Sophia Books)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,159 ratings — published 2015
The Uses of Argument (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 189 ratings — published 1958
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 231,220 ratings — published -400
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 182,533 ratings — published 1984
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,182,544 ratings — published 1936
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 119,839 ratings — published 2010
How to Win Every Argument (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.56 — 39 ratings — published 1999
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 609,334 ratings — published 2011
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 20,492 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 117,368 ratings — published 2016
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 287,030 ratings — published 2006
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (ebook)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,701 ratings — published 2018
Shark vs. Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 6,135 ratings — published 2010
Earrings! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 383 ratings — published 1990
A Beetle Is Shy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 541 ratings — published 2016
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 107,064 ratings — published 2003
Can We Save the Tiger? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,239 ratings — published 2011
The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 343 ratings — published 2015
Elements of Argument: A Text and Reader, Ninth Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 137 ratings — published 1985
I Wanna New Room (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 774 ratings — published 2010
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 207,534 ratings — published 1854
Thank You for Arguing - What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 57 ratings — published
This Way Up (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.40 — 40 ratings — published
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 374,179 ratings — published 2015
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 4,703 ratings — published 2006
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 51,360 ratings — published 2015
A Secret Garden (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 3,990 ratings — published 2017
Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 2005
The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 147 ratings — published 1485
The Craft of Argument: Concise (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 47 ratings — published 2000
Dragon Storm: Erin and Rockhammer (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 43 ratings — published 2022
The Squirrels Who Squabbled (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,128 ratings — published 2017
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 17,284 ratings — published 2013
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 15,305 ratings — published 2016
The Infinite Game (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 29,731 ratings — published 2017
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 278,495 ratings — published 2009
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 67,085 ratings — published 2014
The Philosophy of Hegel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 22 ratings — published 1953
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 15,554 ratings — published 2013
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 211,913 ratings — published 2006
Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,782 ratings — published
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 60,335 ratings — published 2015
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 540 ratings — published 2023
“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in Plato.
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
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