Item Tag: Ali Almossawi

An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid by Ali

Public discourse?. More like public. 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 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.

Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, Hardcover by Almossawi, Ali; Giraldo, Al…

Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, Hardcover by Almossawi, Ali; Giraldo, Alejandro (ILT), ISBN 1615198407, ISBN-13 9781615198405, Brand New, Free shipping in the US “An illustrated, humorous guide to verbal and written rhetorical tricks, teaching readers to more competently analyze the hidden content behind words”–

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: by Ali Almossawi (Hardcover, 2014) Book

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: by Ali Almossawi (Hardcover, 2014) Kids Book – Learn The Lost Art of Making Sense ABOUT “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 the forthcoming 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. Title: An Illustrated Book of Bad ArgumentsFormat: Paper over BoardProduct dimensions: 64 pages, 7.2 X 8.1 X 0.5 inPublished: September 23, 2014Publisher: The ExperimentLanguage: EnglishAppropriate for ages: All agesISBN – 13: 9781615192250