In this highly accessible book, Alec Fisher shows students how they can develop a range of creative and critical thinking skills that are transferable to other subjects and contexts.

With 20 different ways to think better, and an introduction, this work is an examination of contemporary thought or lack of it in our society. It explains the problem of fuzzy thinking in detail, and optimistically proposes necessary remedies to 'dumbth' in the 101 rules for good thinking, reading, writing, speaking, and, reasoning.

A work based on 50 interviews with men and women - Chris Bonington, Mark McCormack, Terence Conran and Malcolm Forbes - who have been outstandingly successful in a variety of fields. It analyzes their different paths to success.

Contains life hacks that teach you to: use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall. This work also helps you perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin; use effective systems to capture new ideas; and communicate in creative new ways using artificial languages.

Offers a structure that helps broaden our ability to respond and cope with a vast range of situations.

Focuses on the importance of critical thinking and the vital role education should play. This work argues that the educator's fundamental role is to train us to think well.

In an increasingly complex world 'simplicity' is going to be a key value. The pace of change is not going to stop so we have to make a conscious effort to make things simpler. In a simple way, this title shows us how very often a lateral thinking approach can simplify a complex matter.

Helps you learn how to: use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition; leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking modes; avoid common 'known bugs' in your mind; and, manage knowledge efficiently.

Enables anyone with basic math and science skills to estimate virtually anything - quickly - using plausible assumptions and elementary arithmetic. This book presents an array of estimation problems that range from devilishly simple to quite sophisticated and from real-world concerns to silly ones.

In this fascinating and often hilarious work -- winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 -- pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how -- and why -- the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy.

What we have not sufficiently developed is the thinking concerned with what can be. This is thinking that is creative and constructive, and which seeks to solve conflicts and problems by designing a way forward. This title emphasises on thinking that is on design and not judgement.

What is 'humpty-dumptying'? Do 'arguments from analogy' ever stand up? How do I know when someone is using 'weasel words'? This book intends to help anyone who wants to argue well and think critically. It includes such entries as: Principle of Charity; Lawyer's Answer; Least Worst Option; Poisoning the Well; Sentimentality; and Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Examines why creativity and insight are incredibly vibrant at the intersection of domains, disciplines, cultures and fields and tells us how to get to those places. This book reveals the core principles that reign when divergent concepts are combined.

This text shows how the unconscious mental processes - called cognitive illusions - make false judgements in a whole range of everyday decisions almost inevitable. It discusses such illusions as juror's fallacy and probability blindness .

Describing himself as a visual jackdaw , master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distills this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind.

Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? This book aims to change the way you think about business and the world. It also seeks to shatter the illusions of people around the world by teaching them how to recognize randomness.

Discusses why your emotional intelligence is more important than your IQ.

Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. This book provides insights into how knowledge workers think, how they accomplish tasks, and what motivates them to excel.

Sophie finds two questions in her mailbox: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? This is the start of her journey through the history of philosophy, guided by a mysterious mentor. To find the truth, we must understand the questions, but the truth is stranger than Sophie can imagine.

Whenever Forty-second Street in New York is temporarily closed, traffic doesn't gridlock but flows more smoothly - why is that? What can the game of cricket teach us about the surprising behavior of the law of averages? These are some of the counterintuitive mathematical occurrences that readers encounter in this book.