An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)

An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)

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  • Author: Ali Almossawi
  • Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
  • ISBN: 1615198415
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 197

“This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today’s culture wars.”—Hope Jahren The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return with this desperately timely guide to how words can trick us. Learn to “hear” hidden bias, slant, and spin—from an irresistible cast of woodland creatures! Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”—be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, history, even identity through what they leave unsaid. Speaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoric—aided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here, passive voice can pardon wrongdoers, statistics may be a smokescreen, gaslighting entraps the downtrodden, and irrelevant adjectives cement stereotypes. Emperor Squirrel isn’t naked; he has a clothes-free sartorial style. Mouse’s roof becomes flattened (Elephant’s foot just happens to be there at the time). And when keen-eyed Owl claims a foreign shore, he seems to be overlooking someone . . . Fans of Almossawi’s An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments couldn’t ask for a better primer on the less logical ways that words can trick us. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what’s left unsaid—but when you’re a rabbit in a badger world, listening makes all the difference.


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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

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  • Author: Ali Almossawi
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 1615192263
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 110

“This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company's ‘organizational intelligence.’. . . It’s more than just a must-read, it’s a ‘have-to-read-or-you’re-fired’ book”—Geoffrey James, INC.com From the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle). Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn’t like the result (the argument from consequences). Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments—which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions.


American Military History

American Military History

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  • Author: Daniel K. Blewett
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 1598844989
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 469

In this companion volume to his 1995 bibliography of the same title, Daniel Blewett continues his foray into the vast literature of military studies. As did its predecessor, it covers land, air, and naval forces, primarily but not exclusively from a U.S. perspective, with the welcome emergence of small wars from publishing obscurity. In addition to identifying relevant organizations and associations, Blewett has gathered together the very best in chronologies, bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, indexes, journals abstracts, glossaries, and encyclopedias, each accompanied by a brief descriptive annotation. This work remains a pertinent addition to the general reference collections of public and academic libraries as well as special libraries, government documents collections, military and intelligence agency libraries, and historical societies and museums.


The Texas Outlook

The Texas Outlook

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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 614


Unisa Latin American Report

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  • Category : Latin America
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 644


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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 558


The Child and the English Language Arts

The Child and the English Language Arts

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  • Author: Mildred R. Donoghue
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 588


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  • Category : Bibliography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1844


Alternative Library Literature

Alternative Library Literature

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  • Category : Antinuclear movement
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292