Discover the Power of Critical Thinking: 30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living, Revised and Expanded by Linda Elder
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I downloaded this book when it was free from Barnes and Noble.com's Nook store, and I thank them for giving me the opportunity to read different authors.

This is the kind of book you wish some other people would read before they would even open their mouths; and yet, I would not recommend it as the best source of information about critical thinking for there is too much self-reference in such statements as "read our other books and visit our website." Too frequently in the examples of how to come to a critical thought is a liberal viewpoint without sufficient supporting analysis. To use their words, there may be a socio-centric bias.

I have no problems with the thirty themes we readers are asked to examine, and I like the suggestions for backward reading which is reading the works of critical thinkers from previous eras.

I read this book at the same time as I read an earlier edition which was called 25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living: A guide for improving every aspect of Your Life. I did not see that much improvement in the revision and expansion.



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