Most of us grew up in a culture where school systems rewarded fast, correct answers to problems—not slow, deliberate questions about problems. But as we mature, we face more complicated matters—ideas with worldview implications—that aren’t tests of memorized facts.How can we confidently evaluate important issues when we’ve been ill-equipped to think critically?By changing our minds.Authors Kenneth Samples and Mark Perez have compiled invaluable knowledge and critica...

Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men presents a fresh look at UFOs and extraterrestrials. Working from a rational Christian worldview, authors Hugh Ross, Kenneth Samples, and Mark Clark initiate a search for truth to answers about extraterrestrial life, conspiracy theories, cult groups, alien encounters, and more. Utilizing extensive scientific background and knowledge of the Bible, they approach the many questions that surround this enigmatic topic, including: • Does documentation exist...

Meet Finn Firefly, the young electrician who learns life's biggest lessons one job at a time! When Finn becomes an electrician's apprentice at Firefly Electric, he discovers that confidence alone isn't enough. One shocking mistake (KABLOOEY!) shows him that a proud know-it-all has a lot to learn. Follow Finn through 19 colorful, illustrated stories as he digs trenches, wires a radio tower, works at a snowy airport, solves the "half the house" mystery, and studies for his journeyman test. A...

Feminist digital humanities offers opportunities for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge and enacting new processes for creating meaning. Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman present essays that explore digital humanities practice as rich terrain for feminist creativity and critique.The editors divide the works into three categories. In the first section, contributors offer readings that demonstrate how feminist thought can be put into operation thro...

In 2003 Nigel Turner, a British filmmaker produced a History Channel documentary aboutthe Kennedy assassination entitled The Guilty Men. The program was basedprimarily on two books -The Men on the Sixth Floor, and Blood, Money and Power.The Guilty Men segment captured American's attention like no previous JFKprogram ever had. DVD sales of the History Channel's presentation soared.Angry phone calls to the LBJ library by some viewers of the Guilty Men expre...

How can we confidently evaluate important issues when we've been ill-equipped to think critically?By changing our minds.Authors Kenneth Samples and Mark Perez have compiled invaluable knowledge and critical thinking exercises in one accessible resource, Clear Thinking in a Messy World. This is a must-have resource for all Christians who desire to learn how to test their own thoughts and sharpen their thinking skills.

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences ...

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln.The basis for the 2013 television movie of the same name starring Rob Lowe as JFK.More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed th...

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples ...

From the world's #1 bestselling author, the story of the Kennedy family ... not the one you think you know.Now with a bonus chapter!“James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history ... re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style.” —PeopleThe Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, ...

"If I have learned anything in ten years of formal debating, it is that arguments are no different: without a good understanding of the rules and tactics, you are likely to do poorly and be beaten."—HENRY ZHANG, President of the Yale Debate AssociationYour argument is valid and you know it; yet once again you find yourself leaving a debate feeling defeated and embarrassed. The matter is only made worse when you realize that your defeat came at the hands of...

50th Anniversary Edition—now with a new foreword on what Watergate means today.“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigat...