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How to think : a survival guide for a world at odds  Cover Image Book Book

How to think : a survival guide for a world at odds / Alan Jacobs.

Jacobs, Alan, 1958- (author.).

Summary:

Examines the forces that prevent modern people from thinking, including distraction, social bias, and fear of rejection, and offers tips to regain a rational mental life.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780451499608
  • ISBN: 0451499603
  • Physical Description: 157 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Currency, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, c2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Beginning to think -- Attractions -- Repulsions -- The money of fools -- The age of lumping -- Open and shut -- A person, thinking -- Conclusion: the pleasures and dangers of thinking -- Afterword: the thinking person's checklist.
Subject: Thought and thinking.
Reasoning.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Independence Branch 153.42 J17h 2017 (Text) 33126020067173 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 05/10/2024


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