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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,929 ratings — published 2023
How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 1,444 ratings — published 2006
A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 3,213 ratings — published 1986
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 — 7,315 ratings — published 2007
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,856 ratings — published 1981
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 5,955 ratings — published 2006
One Word from Sophia (The Sophia Books)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,156 ratings — published 2015
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 175,741 ratings — published 1984
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,139,655 ratings — published 1936
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 134,781 ratings — published 1995
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 — 582,814 ratings — published 2011
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 282,399 ratings — published 2006
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (ebook)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,656 ratings — published 2018
Shark vs. Train (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 6,139 ratings — published 2010
Earrings! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 381 ratings — published 1990
A Beetle Is Shy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 530 ratings — published 2016
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 104,584 ratings — published 2003
Can We Save the Tiger? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,236 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 3.49 — 134 ratings — published 1985
I Wanna New Room (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 772 ratings — published 2010
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,257 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Reasoning, 2nd Expanded Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 20 ratings — published 1990
A Modern Formal Logic Primer: Sentence Logic, Volume I (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 41 ratings — published 1989
How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 757 ratings — published 1985
How to Master the Art of Selling (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,827 ratings — published 1981
Twelve Angry Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 37,171 ratings — published 1954
How to Win an Argument with a Woman (Blank Inside)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
Nixon's Ten Commandments of Leadership and Negotiation: His Guiding Principles of Statecraft (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 1998
Take Control of Keynote (ebook)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
Competitive Debate: The Official Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 2008
The Uses of Argument (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 181 ratings — published 1958
In The Line Of Fire: How To Handle Tough Questions ...When It Counts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 672 ratings — published 2005
What Makes Juries Listen Today (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1998
The Articulate Executive: Learn to Look, Act, and Sound Like a Leader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 239 ratings — published 1995
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Verbal Self-Defense (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.49 — 45 ratings — published 1999
Win the Customer, Not the Argument (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published 2005
How to Win an Argument: Effectively Argue and Win (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Reasoning (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 195 ratings — published 1988
10 Secret Tricks to Win Any Argument (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.65 — 40 ratings — published 2012
A Modern Formal Logic Primer: Predicate Logic & Metatheory Vol 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 19 ratings — published 1989
Ogilvy on Advertising (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 11,642 ratings — published 1983
Key Debates in Anthropology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 26 ratings — published 1996
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 4,173 ratings — published 2025
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,029 ratings — published 2025
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,384 ratings — published
Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2,160 ratings — published 2022
How To Argue With A Cat (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 1,727 ratings — published 2018
The Culture of Terrorism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 373 ratings — published 1988
“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.”
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“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
