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  • Book cover of Teleological Explanations
    Larry Wright

     · 2023

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

  • Book cover of Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia

    Featuring more than 650 lighthouses located throughout the five Great Lakes, a lavish encyclopedia uncovers the history behind these noble structures, which helped guide thousands of sailors and now mostly serve as monuments to an exciting period in history and points of pilgrimage for maritime enthusiasts.

  • Book cover of The Last Poet of Love
    Larry Wright

     · 2015

    I wrote the majority of my manuscripts in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. It was based upon the lovely females that I met over a course of ten years. They inspired me to write. They were sincere with their inner feelings towards me. Jealousy between the females became to become a huge problem. I couldnt concentrate on my writing in peace and tranquility. So therefore, I relocated to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin where, I completed most of my manuscripts to form the book titled The Last Poet of Love. Now I am totally dedicated to write until death parts me from my pen.

  • Book cover of Bonfires & Beacons

    Husband and wife team Larry and Patricia Wright travelled throughout the Great Lakes region to capture the most interesting and beautiful lighthouses. Featured lighthouses are located in Ontario, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio.

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  • Book cover of Bright Lights, Dark Nights

    BRIGHT LIGHTS, DARK NIGHTS is the much-anticipated sequel to Larry and Patricia Wright's enormously popular Bonfires & Beacons: Great Lakes Lighthouses. The lighthouses featured in this book evoke the beauty and rich history of lightkeeping on the Great Lakes, on both sides of the American--Canadian border.

  • Book cover of Critical Thinking
    Larry Wright

     · 2013

    Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning, Second Edition, provides a nontechnical vocabulary and analytic apparatus that guide students in identifying and articulating the central patterns found in reasoning and in expository writing more generally. Understanding these patterns of reasoning helps students to better analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments and to more easily comprehend the full range of everyday arguments found in ordinary journalism. Critical Thinking, Second Edition, distinguishes itself from other texts in the field by emphasizing analytical reading as an essential skill. It also provides detailed coverage of argument analysis, diagnostic arguments, diagnostic patterns, and fallacies. Opening with two chapters on analytical reading that help students recognize what makes reasoning explicitly different from other expository activities, the text then presents an interrogative model of argument to guide them in the analysis and evaluation of reasoning. This model allows a detailed articulation of "inference to the best explanation" and gives students a view of the pervasiveness of this form of reasoning. The author demonstrates how many common argument types--from correlations to sampling--can be analyzed using this articulated form. He then extends the model to deal with several predictive and normative arguments and to display the value of the fallacy vocabulary. Ideal for introductory courses in critical thinking, critical reasoning, informal logic, and inductive reasoning, Critical Thinking, Second Edition, features hundreds of exercises throughout and includes worked-out solutions and additional exercises (without solutions) at the end of each chapter. An Instructor's Manual--offering solutions to the text's unanswered exercises and featuring other pedagogical aids--is available on the book's Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/wright.

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