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The Fallacy Detective has been the best-selling book for teaching logical fallacies and introduction to logic for over 15 years. What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking. “A cloud is 90 percent water. A watermelon is 90 percent water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.” This is an easy book for learning to spot common errors in reasoning. For ages 12 through adult. Fun to use - learn skills you can use right away.

Praise for Pattaya Heat: "IF YOU ENJOY OLD DETECTIVE STORIES, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS." "EXCELLENT BOOK AND A GREAT NEW DETECTIVE!" Welcome to Pattaya City, Thailand. This piss-poor paradise makes Las Vegas look like a PG-13 Disney movie. Pattaya is where Richy Sky has landed for a premature mid-life crisis. This is not where he wants to be, scraping by taking small-time PI jobs, mostly infidelity investigations. The fun, if you could call it that, can't last forever, and now Richy sees a way out -- a new job, one that pays very well. All he has to do is find a missing antique watch that's worth ...

A giant hound haunts the night. A detective who sees everything. And you… reading it all in Spanish with ease. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the foggy moors, where the Baskerville family lives in fear. Is it a beast… or something else? The mystery awaits you. This easy edition is specially adapted for Spanish learners at A1 level: ✅ Simple vocabulary ✅ Short sentences ✅ Natural rhythm A rewritten and simplified version so you can enjoy the suspense while improving your Spanish step by step. Un sabueso gigante aterroriza la noche. Un detective que lo observa todo. Y tú...

Three friends discover magical worlds where they learn about resilience, compassion, and joy through veterinary care, music, and celebration. **A Magical Adventure Teaching Resilience, Compassion, and Joy for Ages 6-9** When a mysterious llama delivers a silver envelope to Imani, Tommy, and Maya, the three friends are swept into an unforgettable adventure through the Corner of Forgotten Things—a magical realm where celebrations come to life! **Perfect for young readers who love:** ✓ Fantasy and magical adventures ✓ Stories about friendship and teamwork ✓ Animal stories with heart ...

Experience the first episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audiobook is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow.

¿Quién puede resistirse a los encantos Sherlock Holmes mientras aprendes español? Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes para estudiantes de español combina el misterio y la intriga de los relatos clásicos de Arthur Conan Doyle con una forma divertida y efectiva de mejorar tu español. En esta edición especial, encontrarás los casos más emocionantes: Escándalo en Bohemia, Un caso de identidad, El misterio del valle de Boscombe, Las cinco semillas de naranja y El carbunclo azul. Esta edición no es una traducción de la obra, es una re-escritura con algunas partes añadidas u omitidas ...

Transform your everyday life into a thrilling detective story with Elementary, My Dear: The Art of Deduction – For Fun, For Profit, For Real. In this practical guide, Carmen and Harold Laski strip away the mystique of Sherlock Holmes and hand you the tools to: • Uncover hidden clues in conversations, contracts, and coffee shop messes • Apply Bayes’ head-count method to separate true signals from false alarms • Use mnemonic systems and memory-palace mapping to store and retrieve vital details • Spot red herrings, avoid rabbit holes, and shortcut complex decisions • Navigate ...

In the first major history of crime fiction in 50 years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators traces the evolution of the genre from the 18th century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world’s most popular form of fiction.

Experience the fourth episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audio book is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ Author G. Taylor In this 5K-word swollen and throbbing erotic short story, a woman named Jeanine joins her husband on a swinger couple's cruise, only Jeanine is suddenly blamed for stealing an emerald necklace from the ship's most executive passenger. Now it's a race against time as Jeanine and a handsome PI named Bridge Hoffa must find the true culprit in the theft. As the evidence begins to mount, it now appears as if that priceless ...

Struggling with English tenses? "A Matter of Choice" offers a revolutionary approach to grammar learning. Learn English tenses effortlessly with an engaging detective story designed for elementary to pre-intermediate ESL/EFL learners. This unique method combines a captivating narrative with practical exercises, making grammar learning fun and effective. Follow Detective Cooper Blackwood as he solves a painting theft, encountering a past flame along the way, and master a new tense in each chapter. Boost your English skills and enjoy the thrill of a great detective story. Improve your fluency...

Experience the fifth episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audiobook is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow. When a loyal family dog comes upon a human ear in its feeding dish one morning, the police is notified immediately, but due to a sudden change in staff, the investigation proceeds only haltingly.

If Alison Girling, former principal of England's Holm Coultram College, died in an avalanche in Austria, why has her skeleton been unearthed on campus? While no love is lost between conservative detective Andrew Dalziel and the entirety of Liberal Arts, his attention to the grim discovery must be paid. But when he and Peter Pascoe scour the ivory tower for answers, they discover that the shady faculty and creepy student body have more to bury than just one corpse. Try two-and counting.

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 4 is equivalent to CEF level B2 with a word count of 20,000-26,000 words.

Experience the second episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audiobook is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German that is clearly understandable, not too fast but also not too slow.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.

This is the third episode of the popular Baumgartner & Momsen mystery series for German learners. In a seedy internet café, the dead body of a teenager is found. What caused his death? Did he die from exhaustion, or was it murder? Help Kommissar Baumgartner and his colleague, Katharina Momsen, unravel this mystery and improve your vocabulary along the way! Why brood over grammar sheets and lifeless workbooks when you can be entertained and learn natural German along the way?

She’s a stubborn scholar with a psychic secret. He’s a brooding alien vampire hiding in her library. She swore she’d stay focused—but now he’s the one book she can’t put down. Page McRae just landed a coveted fellowship at the galaxy’s biggest library—an ancient archive of lost knowledge, buried secrets, and maybe even answers about her own strange powers. She’s here to research, not get distracted. Then she discovers the monster hiding in the archive. Hidden in the library’s darkest wing, the Obscuary houses more than forgotten tomes—it’s home to Thorne Valtheris, a...

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 4 is equivalent to CEF level B2 with a word count of 20,000-26,000 words.

This bilingual French/English edition of Agatha Christie’s "The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge" includes a new French translation by author France Dubin. In the short story "The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge", the great Hercule Poirot is asked to solve the murder of a rich American.