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| The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives | 
 enlarge | Authors: Marilyn Vos Savant, Marilyn Vos Savant
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 599207
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 203
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0312139853
Dewey Decimal Number: 160
EAN: 9780312139858
ASIN: 0312139853
Publication Date: March 1996
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| Customer Reviews:
 FUN BOOK! March 31, 2000
15 out of 24 found this review helpful
Marilyn is rich, beautiful, talented, happily married, comfortably famous, and BRILLIANT! A lot of nasty, hateful people resent her because they're jealous and mean. I wish they'd quit resenting her success and just go work on their own fetid lives, instead of bashing this book. THIS BOOK IS GREAT! It is also fun. Marilyn knows a teacher can't be boring if she wants to keep her students. This book has all sorts of fun things that teach us how to build our brains. In one section, she has us look at a series of pretty paintings to detect differences in them -- enjoyable detective work that helps us learn how to pay attention to details. Another section urges us to eat an orange in a special way -- a sensory delight that helps us to expand awareness. Don't assume this is a boring math book, because it isn't. It is a lot of fun.
the power of logical thinking July 25, 1999
2 out of 21 found this review helpful
A question.IS this book traslating in italian linguage?.j would like to have one .Plase send me some notice about it. thanks MARIO.
 A little too familiar April 14, 1999
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Good insights into paradoxes, and some new applications of thinking straight about political matters and what newspapers say, but doesn't approach the promise of the rather grandiose title - most is warmed-over Innumeracy and How to Lie with Statistics. Good stuff to repeat, and the book certainly has value, but anyone whose IQ is their main claim to fame needs to be more original.
Very entertaining January 5, 1999
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
The book provides a valuable lesson on the importance of logical thinking. I have read Marilyn Vos Savant's articles in the newspapers for years, but this book added much more than her columns. I plan to read this excellent book again.
excellent overview of mental stumbles & "tricks" October 9, 1998
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you want to understand how our minds are sometimes fooled into believing or assuming things that are not true, read this book. If you want to broaden your range of understanding, read this book. It is interesting and informative. The explanations that help you to understand the lapses of logic are very easy to understand.
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