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Thinkonomics - Illustrated Critical Thinking Articles - cover

Thinkonomics - Illustrated Critical Thinking Articles

Robert A. Johnson

Publisher: Publishdrive

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Summary

What should we really think about nuclear weapons? Has the music industry gone one step too far? Should we farm free range humans?!
Whilst you can't always answer the big - or small - questions in society, critically examining them allows you to better inform your opinions. Herein lies a plethora of critical thinking exercises to challenge your assumptions on a whole manner of things you almost certainly already have an opinion on.
These beautifully illustrated critical thinking articles will take your thinking so far out of the box, you'll forget there even is one.
Available since: 03/20/2018.
Print length: 180 pages.

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