AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: Discovering The American Past: A Look at the Evidence by William Bruce Wheeler ISBN: 0-618-10224-8 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.76

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)

Rating: 2
Summary: Teaching Critical Thinking? Not.
Comment: In my opinion, the authors should introduce evidence in The Evidence rather than making bold, uncorroborated statements in Questions to Consider (thus tainting the evidence with bias); however the authors are prone to guiding the reader to a pre-chosen conclusion. This, to me, is unconscionable in a book purported to help students become critical thinkers. The authors apparently use a different definition for "critical thinker" than I am familiar with. In truth, the book intends to be censor morum, teaching the student to become a politically-correct thinker.

I loved reading The Evidence but I can really do without the editorializing in the other sections of each chapter. Allow the student to come to his own conclusions, I say. Unfortunately (or fortunately, rather) not all textbooks are equal.

Caveat Emptor.

Similar Books:

	Title: Discovering the American Past: Since 1865 by William Bruce Wheeler, Susan D. Becker ISBN: 0618102256 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.76
	Title: A People and a Nation: A History of the United States (Volume 1, To 1877) by Mary Beth Norton ISBN: 061800551X Publisher: Not Avail Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $77.56
	Title: Out of Many, Vol. 1, Brief Fourth Edition by John MacK Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage, John M. Faragher, Susan Armitage ISBN: 0131824317 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 27 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $47.00
	Title: Discovering the American Past (Volume II since 1865) by William Wheeler ISBN: 0395668662 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95
	Title: Out of Many, Vols. 1 and 2, Fourth Edition by John MacK Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage ISBN: 0131824309 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $64.00